Meanings
noungrand-uncle (plural grand-uncles)
plural grand-uncles
- alternativeAlternative form of granduncle.
When I was eighteen I obtained Master Zhang Kongzhao’s Hand Combat Classic (Quan jing), which he compiled while serving under my clan’s remote great-uncle in Huguan County (in Southeastern Shanxi, near Henan’s border).
2008, Meir Shahar, “Hand Combat”, in The Shaolin Monastery: History, Religion, and the Chinese Martial Arts, Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 125
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