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Definition of Godowns
1. godown [n] - See also: godown
Lexicographical Neighbors of Godowns
Literary usage of Godowns
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Things Chinese: Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with China by James Dyer Ball (1893)
"... more especially the hongs and godowns fronting the river in Canton, there are
as many as six, eight, ten, or twelve separate roofs one behind another in ..."
2. The Far East Revisited: Essays on Political, Commercial, Social, and General by A. Gorton Angier (1908)
"... with Neighbouring Ports—Material Progress—Railway— Johore — Exchange — Penang —
Growth and Prospects — Shipment Facilities—Pier and godowns—Praya ..."
3. Japan 1853-1864, Or, Genji Yume Monogatari by Baba Bunyel, Ernest Mason Satow (1905)
"One thousand two hundred and sixteen mud godowns, forty bridges, -three theatres,
four hundred forty three beggar's houses, and one Eta village fell victims ..."
4. Reports on Trade at the Treaty Ports by China Hai guan zong shui wu si shu (1880)
"STOCKS of the principal kinds of WOOLLEN GOODS in FOREIGN godowns and at PUBLIC
WHARVES at SHANGHAI, as returned by Foreign Firms to the Shanghai General ..."
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