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[poetry collection] Cathay (1915) is a collection of classical Chinese poetry translated into English by modernist poet Ezra Pound based on Ernest Fenollosa`s notes that came into Pound`s possession in 1913. At first Pound used the notes to translate Noh plays and then to translate Chinese poetry to English, despite a complete lack of knowl...
The medieval European name for China.
• (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.)
name by which North China was known in medieval Europe. The word is derived from Khitay (or Khitan), the name of a seminomadic people who left ... [2 related articles]
Ca·thay' noun 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. » 
[n] - an archaic or literary name for China
noun an archaic or literary name for China