Definition of Kansu

1. Noun. A province in north-central China; formerly part of the Silk Road to Turkistan and India and Persia.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Kansu

Kangos
Kangxi
Kanji
Kanjobal
Kannada
Kannada-speaking
Kanner's syndrome
Kano
Kanpur
Kansa
Kansan
Kansans
Kansas
Kansas City
Kansas River
Kansu (current term)
Kant
Kantean
Kanteans
Kantei
Kantian
Kantianism
Kantianist
Kantianists
Kantians
Kantism
Kantist
Kantists
Kantrex
Kanuri

Literary usage of Kansu

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1915)
"Yet, in the vast panorama, many a detail may seem small that on the spot bulks * This paper was written in Kansu last summer (Editor). ..."

2. Origin of the Western Nations & Languages: Showing the Construction and Aim by Charles Lassalle (1883)
"As Cantabria says in Spanish that mirth is singing, "Ma Canta"; Cantabria, Kansu and Ngan-si-Fun must show why we should recognise in ..."

3. Tibet, the Mysterious by Thomas Hungerford Holdich (1906)
"... Christianity in Coria — The Mongolian and Chinese Borderland Frontier Farms — Mongolian Customs — Trade with China — Lamaism in Western Kansu — The Koko ..."

4. American Anthropologist by American Anthropological Association, American Ethnological Society (1892)
"When the Sioux first obtained our ordinary playing cards they gave to them, as well as to the game, the name kansu, because they were used by the whites and ..."

5. In the Footsteps of Marco Polo: Being the Account of a Journey Overland from by Clarence Dalrymple Bruce (1907)
"THE inhabitants of Western Kansu vary so little from the ordinary Chinese of the north, that any detailed description of them is unnecessary. ..."

6. China by Harold Edward Gorst (1899)
"... of Shensi—The Province of Kansu—Kwangtung and Hong Kong Island—The Province of Fukien—The Province of Chekiang—Marco Polo's Description of Hangchow—The ..."

7. China: Travels and Investigations in the "Middle Kingdom"-- a Study of Its by James Harrison Wilson (1901)
"... presumptive to the Throne—Tung Fuh-siang and the Kansu Braves—Overthrow of the Liberals—Threatened death of the Emperor—Troubles between Empress Dowager ..."

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