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Mandarin

noun

Shrub or small tree having flattened globose fruit with very sweet aromatic pulp and thin yellow-orange to flame-orange rind that is loose and easily removed; native to southeastern Asia. Synonyms: Citrus reticulata, mandarin orange, mandarin orange tree.

A member of an elite intellectual or cultural group.

Any high government official or bureaucrat.

A high public official of imperial China.

A somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China. Synonym: mandarin orange.

The dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China. Synonyms: Beijing dialect, Mandarin Chinese, Mandarin dialect.

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... MANDARIN. A Portuguese word derived from mandare, "to command." It is unknown to the Chinese and Tonquinese, who style ...

— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth

... grade, under the direction of the indolent M. Tavernier, always busy polishing his nails, like a Chinese mandarin, the child had for a professor in the eighth grade Pere Montandeuil, a poor fellow stupefied by thirty years of teaching, who secretly employed all his spare hours in composing five-act tragedies, and who, by dint of carrying to and going for his manuscripts at the Odeon, ended by marrying ...

— A Romance of Youth, Complete • Francois Coppee

... Hilda, having slept her allotted number of hours, was up in time to superintend the serving of the General's dinner. Later, Derry stopped at the door to say that he was going to the theater and might be called there. The General, propped against his pillows and clothed in a gorgeous mandarin coat, looked wrinkled and old. The ruddiness had faded from his cheeks, and he ...

— The Tin Soldier • Temple Bailey

... full sight of the travellers, lurched giddily at her moorings. The fourth occupant of our compartment, a sallow man with yellow whiskers, turned green with apprehension. Not so Placidia. From amongst her chaotic hand-baggage she extracted walnuts and mandarin oranges, and began eating with an appetite that was a direct challenge to the Channel. Bravery or ...

— A Versailles Christmas-Tide • Mary Stuart Boyd

... put it to him squarely, as a debt of honour that he owes. I asked him whether to invest. Damn him! he never warned me not to. He is morally responsible. Any man who would sit there and nod monotonously like a mandarin, knowing all the while what he was doing to wreck the company, and let a friend put into a rotten concern all the cash he could scrape ...

— The Fighting Chance • Robert W. Chambers

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