Word: chinaman
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...word Chinaman is not only quite incorrect but very offensive to the Chinese. One does not refer to an Englandman, and Americaman. So why a Chinaman...
Webster's New International disparages the "obsolete, rare or English" sense in which "Chinaman" means "a dealer in porcelain," but fully authorizes the meaning "a Chinese," in which sense alone "Chinaman" is occasionally used by TIME...
Moreover, Prince Ras Taffari is of a turn of mind no less inquiring than Rasselas.† He would, guessed travelers, desire as envoy from any other state, a representative of that state's dominant race. Ras Taffari would want to learn about China from a Chinaman, not a white man; about India from a Hindu, not an Anglo-Saxon; about the U. S. from a Caucasian, not a Negro...
...Nights had its first orchestral performance at the hands of the new Beethoven Symphony Orchestra. Critics liked his musical descriptions of a murky autumn morning on a ferry; of the chimes of St. Patrick blended with a Gregorian Chant; of Pell Street, Manhattan's Chinatown, and an old Chinaman playing on his single-stringed fiddle; of Greenwich Village and its weighty dramas made of little lives; of Times Square, its crowds, its glitter, its noise...