shantung

plural shantungs

1. countableuncountableA type of Chinese silk, originally undyed.

   As she walked, the soft silk of her dress – she wore a blue shantung, full-skirted – blew away from the sea and flapped and clung to her legs.

   1915, DH Lawrence, The Rainbow, Vintage, published 2011, page 442

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   The yellow beer, the light shantung suit and the gleaming white teeth were all alight with the trembling silver reflections that sprang from the sunlight on the water.

   1963, H. E. Bates, “Major of Hussars”, in Seven by Five

2. countableuncountableA fabric of some other material having the same characteristics.

1. alternativeAlternative form of Shandong.

   Taking advantage of the European war in 1914, Japan seized the German possessions in Shantung, which she promptly enlarged.

   1952, Herbert Hoover, The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover, New York: Macmillan Company, page 363

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   The rest of the coast of China northward, as far as this chart is continued, is copied from the Missionary provincial charts, except in the direction of the coast, which is made more westerly, to accord with the situation of the Chantong or Shantung Promontory, at the entrance of the Yellow Sea, as observed in the voyage of Lord MACARTNEY.

   1816, The Naval Chronicle for 1816, London: Joyce Gold, page 157

   (4) Ting Pao-cheng, lieut.-governor of Shantung, reports having sacrificed to the Tai Shan (泰山), inspected the Confucian Temple at Chüfow (the native place of Confucius), which has just undergone a thorough repair, and examined the dykes erected to protect the low lands, in the neighbourhood of Yuncheng, from the inundations of the Yellow River.

   1872 July 27, “Abstract of Peking Gazettes”, in North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette, volume IX, number 273, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 69, column 1

   We uttered our chagrin that the spokesmen for the American conscience—aye, for the "conscience of civilization"—had sanctioned the confessed immorality of the Shantung award to satisfy a secret covenant against which we righteously proclaimed, and we did all we can do to right the wrong.

   1920 [1919 September 11], Frederick E. Schortemeier, “Safeguarding America”, in Rededicating America: Life and Recent Speeches of Warren G. Harding, Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, →OL, page 79

   The first step looking toward the partition of such a state as China is likely to be the marking out of the country into spheres of special interest, and these several agreements between the Powers and China resulted in the application of that term to various parts of the Empire. Thus Manchuria was said to be Russia's sphere of interest, Shantung the sphere of Germany, etc.

   1928, Harold M. Vinacke, A History of the Far East in Modern Times, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, page 140

   Thus far it has been impossible to trace more accurately the development during these five centuries as archeological data, which would have provided a better basis for study, have been lacking. It has only been in the last few years that field work has given us some necessary information, particularly in Shantung Province, and it may be reasonably anticipated that further studies by the scholar, Wan Hsin-t'ang, from Chi-nan, will throw much light on this chapter of Chinese art.

   1950, Lubor Hájek, Chinese Art, Czechoslovakia: Spring Books, page 9