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- noun Alternative form of
Pekingese .
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Examples
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At that point the Pekinese is a legend in his own mind and the Great Dane never even knew there was a Pekinese.
Sound Politics: Michael Hood: Seattle's most chronically wrong journalist 2007
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In transliterating the names of Chinese characters I have generally followed the spelling of Morrison rather than the Pekinese, which is now in vogue.
A Record of Buddhistic kingdoms: being an account by the Chinese monk Fa-hsien of travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in search of the Buddhist books of discipline ca. 337-ca. 422 Faxian
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In the 3rd or 4th year of its life, 'Pekinese' thrusts a star-shaped, devil's pitchfork of a stalk up to around 25 cm. into the air that surrounds its low-growing colony of light green.
Museum Blogs 2009
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'Pekinese', another perennial succulent sited among the sand and rocks of the greenhouse wall in our E.H. Lohbrunner Alpine Garden.
Museum Blogs 2009
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When my precious Pekinese, Princess Yin, crossed over, my sole salvation in coping with grief was writing an unpublished memoir, Forever Princess.
Irene Tanner: Singin' in the Rain -- The Blog Irene Tanner 2012
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They went on shopping trips, explored the crowded flower markets, and visited out-of-bounds Chinese restaurants where they sampled the different cuisines—Fukinese, Pekinese, Annamese, Szechuan, and Cantonese.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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In the ark there was, for example, the basic type of “dog,” from which all canines later developed, such as the wolf, jackal, dingo, coyote, but also the four hundred breeds of dog, from the Pekinese to the Great Dane.
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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They went on shopping trips, explored the crowded flower markets, and visited out-of-bounds Chinese restaurants where they sampled the different cuisines—Fukinese, Pekinese, Annamese, Szechuan, and Cantonese.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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When my precious Pekinese, Princess Yin, crossed over, my sole salvation in coping with grief was writing an unpublished memoir, Forever Princess.
Irene Tanner: Singin' in the Rain -- The Blog Irene Tanner 2012
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When my precious Pekinese, Princess Yin, crossed over, my sole salvation in coping with grief was writing an unpublished memoir, Forever Princess.
Irene Tanner: Singin' in the Rain -- The Blog Irene Tanner 2012
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