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Chinatown

[chahy-nuh-toun]

noun

  1. the main Chinese district in any city outside China.



Chinatown

/ ˈʃɪəˌٲʊ /

noun

  1. a quarter of any city or town outside China with a predominantly Chinese population

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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On Jan. 8, an air quality sensor in Chinatown had read fine particulate matter at a concentration over 13 times the federal daily limit — the number that had prompted my team to elicit my interview with Vanderbilt.

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Tucked into a Chinatown shopping plaza, the modern Filipino restaurant Lasita is typically bursting with energy.

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Instead, he took the cast and crew to film in areas like Koreatown, Reseda, Huntington Park and Chinatown.

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Davis was 24 and had studied at Cooper Union in New York and the artist-run Mountain School of Arts in L.A.’s Chinatown.

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Kelley: My husband conducted a performance of “Rigoletto” about 15 years ago with an opera company in Chinatown.

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