[f. CHINA1 3, 1.]
1. A dealer in porcelain.
1772. Lond. Directory, Brown William, China-man, 1 Aldgate.
1800. New Ann. Direct., 79. Fogg and Son, Chinamen.
1819. P. O. Lond. Direct., 123. Fogg, R., Chinaman.
2. A native of China.
1854. Emerson, Lett. & Soc. Aims, Resources, Wks. (Bohn), III. 198. The disgust of California has not been able to drive nor kick the Chinaman back to the home.
1872. Medhurst, Foreigner in Far Cathay, xi. John Chinaman is a most temperate creature.
3. Chinaman’s hat, collectors’ name for a gastropod shell, also called Cup-and-Saucer.
1854. Woodward, Mollusca (1856), 152. The recent Trochita Sinensis—the ‘Chinaman’s hat’ of collectors—is found on the southern shores of England.
