Blue River

English

Proper noun

(archaic) The Yangtze river in China.
- 1977 [1973], Lucien Bodard, Barbara Bray, transl., The French Consul‎, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 51:
  The rebels put the imperial garrisons to the sword—fifty thousand headless bodies were floating in the Blue River when Nanking fell.

Translations

Yangtze — See also translations at Yangtze

French: fleuve Bleu (fr) m
Hungarian: Kék-folyó

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