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Definition of Sanpans
1. sanpan [n] - See also: sanpan
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sanpans
Literary usage of Sanpans
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Year in China: And a Narrative of Capture and Imprisonment, when Homeward by Martha Noyes Williams (1864)
"It is common to see women, with their children thus snugly disposed of, sculling
the sanpans, or engaged in other menial employments. ..."
2. The Englishman in China (1860)
"Of course we looked everywhere, but without success, and as it was now getting
very dark, I procured two or three sanpans with lanterns to row about during ..."
3. China and Lower Bengal: Being "The Times" Correspondence from China in the by George Wingrove Cooke (1861)
"sanpans and even cargo- boats are moving down the river like London lightermen
in the ordinary exercise of their calling; people are coming down to the bank ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"They appear to have used the lee-board and centre-board in junks and sanpans,
and to have extended their trade to India and even beyond, centuries before ..."
5. A Year in China: And a Narrative of Capture and Imprisonment, when Homeward by Martha Noyes Williams (1864)
"It is common to see women, with their children thus snugly disposed of, sculling
the sanpans, or engaged in other menial employments. ..."
6. The Englishman in China (1860)
"Of course we looked everywhere, but without success, and as it was now getting
very dark, I procured two or three sanpans with lanterns to row about during ..."
7. China and Lower Bengal: Being "The Times" Correspondence from China in the by George Wingrove Cooke (1861)
"sanpans and even cargo- boats are moving down the river like London lightermen
in the ordinary exercise of their calling; people are coming down to the bank ..."
8. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"They appear to have used the lee-board and centre-board in junks and sanpans,
and to have extended their trade to India and even beyond, centuries before ..."
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