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Definition of Tai Long
1. Noun. A branch of the Tai languages.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tai Long
Literary usage of Tai Long
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Gazetteer of Upper Burma and the Shan States by James George Scott, John Percy Hardiman (1900)
"VI. ship to his second son Sao Hkun Tai Long and went into retirement. ...
During the reign of Sao Hkun Tai Long, Mong Nan, and Mong Yin were annexed to the ..."
2. The Shans by Wilbur Willis Cochrane (1915)
"Tai- long certainly, and Bak-long probably, was the name of an ancient Shan king ;
Ling-lawn, the All-Nourisher, was a title sometimes applied to the king ..."
3. A New Universal Gazetteer: Containing a Description of the Principal Nations by Richard Brookes, John Marshall (1839)
"N. Tai-long, a strong city of China, of the fir»t rank, in the province of Chan-si,
seated near tin- Great Wall, in a mountainous country, ..."
4. Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan by Asiatic Society of Japan (1889)
"The Siamese Shans are (1) the Laos, (who call themselves the Lesser Tai, and the
north Burman Shans, the Tai Long* or greater Tai); (2) the Siamese, ..."
5. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1861)
"... iLt tai long with the lateral feathers the tit*--**, each one ending in a
point.—The name cr*i» is erroneously given to many ..."
6. A New Universal Gazetteer: Or Geographical Dictionary by Jedidiah Morse, Richard Cary Morse (1823)
"2'E. LaL 2C* 55'N. Tai-long, city, China, of the first rank, in si, in a mountainous
country, exposed to the cursions of the Tartars, it is well fortified. ..."
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