綠衣房
Chinese edit
early colonial policeman; policeman | house | ||
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trad. (綠衣房) | 綠衣 | 房 | |
simp. (绿衣房) | 绿衣 | 房 |
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
綠衣房
- (American (–1980) Cantonese) police station
- 1888, T. L. Stedman, K. P. Lee, Phrase Book in the Canton Dialect or Dialogues on Ordinary and Familiar Subjects [英語不求人]:
- 1901, 李壬 [Paul Lee Gyim], Chinese-English Elementary Reader and Arithmetic [英語尋源兼算學], page 46:
References edit
- Lorraine Dong, Marlon K. Hom (1980) “Chinatown Chinese: The San Francisco Dialect”, in Amerasia[1]