Cathay
[kæ'θei]
n.

1. Cathay is known as China today.
   朝便今熟悉。
2. Have you ever taken Cathay Pacific?
   搭泰航司班？
3. In the time of Columbus, China was known as Cathay.
   哥伦布，被做卡塞。

cathay
[ noun ]
a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world
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Cathay \Ca*thay"\, n.
China; -- an old name for the Celestial Empire, said have
been introduced by Marco Polo and to be a corruption of the
Tartar name for North China (Khitai, the country of the
Khitans.)

Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.
--Tennyson.