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Webster's Dictionary [1]

(n.) China; - an old name for the Celestial Empire, said have been introduced by Marco Polo and to be a corruption of the Tartar name for North China (Khitai, the country of the Khitans.)

The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]

The name given to China by mediæval writers, which it still bears in Central Asia.

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