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Meaning of 'cathay' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Cathay [ n.]
- China; -- an old name for the Celestial Empire, said have been introduced by Marco Polo and to be a corruption of the Tartar name for North China (Khitai, the country of the Khitans.)

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