China Seas

English

Proper noun

the China Seas pl (plural only)

1. A series of marginal seas in the Western Pacific Ocean around China, including the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea and the South China Sea.
   • 1866 August 18, “LAST NEWS OF ANNA BISHOP”, in The Musical World‎^[1], volume 44, number 33, London, →OCLC, page 521:

     Intelligence has been received at Hong Kong of the total loss of the ship Libelle while on a voyage to that port from San Francisco, having on board a valuable cargo and specie to the extent of £76,000 in dollars, and a number of passengers, among whom were Madame Anna Bishop, Miss Phelan, Mr. M. Schrutz, and Mr. Charles Lascelles, of the English Opera Company, who, with other artists, were on a musical tour. The ship was cast away on the night of the 4th of March, on an uninhabited and dangerous reef called Wake Island, in the China Seas.

Translations

series of marginal seas

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 中國海／中国海 (zh) (Zhōngguóhǎi)

• Finnish: Kiinan reunameret
• French: mer de Chine f
• Spanish: Mar de China m

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