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Forbidden City   /fˈɔrbɪdən sˈɪti/   Listen
Forbidden City

noun
1.
The sacred city of Lamaism; known as the Forbidden City for its former inaccessibility and hostility to strangers.  Synonyms: capital of Tibet, Lassa, Lhasa.
2.
A walled section of Beijing that encloses the palace that was formerly the residence of the emperor of China.





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"Forbidden city" Quotes from Famous Books



... reach the forbidden city was a Jesuit missionary, the Abbe Huc, who reached Lhasa in 1846 from China. He had adopted the dress of the Tibetan Lama—the yellow cap and gown—and he piloted his little caravan across the wide steppes ...
— A Book of Discovery - The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest - Times to the Finding of the South Pole • Margaret Bertha (M. B.) Synge


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