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Cathay [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.)

Cathay Encyclopedia Britannica

CATHAY. See China.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 5, p. 226
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