Langhe
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From Italian Langhe, plural of Piedmontese langa (“hill”), of uncertain origin.
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the Langhe
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hilly area in Piedmont
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Etymology 2 edit
From the Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 浪河 (Lànghé).
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Langhe
- A town in Danjiangkou, Shiyan, Hubei, China.
- 1992, Daily Report: China[1], numbers 9-16, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 44:
- Early last December, the provincial party committee sent five rural socialist ideological education teams to Danjiangkou's (Langhe) town, Hanchuan County's (Liujiage)[...]
- 2012 July 2, Huang Ying, “Program improves nutrition of students”, in China Daily[2], archived from the original on 05 December 2019:
- Peng Xiang (right), deputy secretary-general of Amway Charity Foundation, has lunch in the newly built kitchen under the Spring Seedling Kitchen Project with students of Langhe Primary School in Shiyan, Hubei province. […]
"When we came back to school at the beginning of this semester, all of us were very happy to see this change - a newly built dining hall with a well-equipped kitchen," said Zhou Jing, a fifth-grade student at Langhe Primary School in Shiyan, in Central China's Hubei province. […]
The kitchen at Langhe was the first built this year under the Spring Seedling Kitchen Project, a charitable program focused on improving the nutrition of students at boarding schools in impoverished rural areas. It was the 301st built since the project was launched last year.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Langhe.
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town in central China
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Borrowed from Piedmontese langa (“hill”), of uncertain origin.
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le Langhe f pl (plural only)