Kingmen

English

Proper noun

Kingmen

  1. Alternative form of Jingmen
    • 1984, Isabel Shipley Cunningham, “Terra Sancta”, in Frank N. Meyer Plant Hunter in Asia‎, Ames: Iowa State University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 223:
      The trees did not occur in groves; however, he discovered a concentration around Kingmen (Jingmen), four or five days’ walk northeast of Ichang. After negotiating at length, he paid one hundred dollars in advance to a merchant who promised to collect several thousand pounds of ripe pears and to bring them to Kingmen in September.

Translations
Jingmen — see Jingmen
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