Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Lintong.
I therefore had a long, narrow boat constructed, and told sailors to pilot it to Ming-chiao-k’ou in Lin-t’ung county and fetch coal from there.
2011, Prasannan Parthasarathi, “From cotton to coal”, in Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not: Global Economic Divergence, 1600-1850, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1712 more examples
Observations were taken at Hsi-an on the 5th and 6th, and the rate of the chronometer-watch determined; and on the 7th the party left the city and reached Lin-t’ung, a place fifty li distant, where some famous hot-springs exist.
1912, Robert Sterling Clark, Arthur de Carle Sowerby, Through Shên-kan: The Account of the Clark Expedition in North China, 1908-9., T. Fisher Unwin, →OCLC, page 41This revealing exhibition had scarcely closed when an even more startling announcement from the sip000> Republic of China detailed the discovery of a veritable army of life-size figures and animals in a recently opened tomb at Lin-t'ung in Shensi Province of Northwest China.
1976 March-April, “T'ang Dynasty Tomb Pottery”, in Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago, volume 70, number 2, →OCLC, page 3, column 1
Origin
- Mandarin臨潼 /临潼
- EnglishLin-t'ung
From Mandarin 臨潼 /临潼, Wade–Giles romanization: Lin²-tʻung².
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