Also 7 tutan. [Chinese, f. tu to direct + t‘ang hall; the latter is used as a kind of suffix in many Chinese titles.] One of several designations applied familiarly to a Chinese viceroy.
1613. Purchas, Pilgrimage, IV. xvi. 369. These all are in subiection vnto the Tutan or Vice-roy of the Prouince.
1638. Sir T. Herbert, Trav. (ed. 2), 337. The whole Empire [China] is divided into fifteene great Provinces: governed by so many Quon-fu and Lausiæ; who have their Tutans, and Chyans, or Deputies under them.
1705. Rowe, Biter, II. i. I will put you into the Hands of the Tutang, which is,… according to English Expression, the Constable of Croydon.
