Pekin
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Pekin
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Compare Spanish Pekín, Portuguese Pequim, Dutch Peking, French Pékin, German Peking, Italian Pechino.
proper noun
- Obsolete form of Peking The same country furnishes me with another instance of extended inland commerce. It is found worth while to keep up a mercantile communication between Pekin in China, and Petersburgh. And none of these instances of inland commerce exceed those of the courses by which, at several periods, the whole o
- A city, the county seat of Tazewell County, Illinois.
- A hamlet in New York.
- A city and village in North Dakota.
noun Pekins
- A type of patterned silk.
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noun patterned fabric
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