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Ca·thay (ka t̸hā′, kə-)

China

Etymology: ML Cataya < Uighur Khitay, a Mongol people who ruled in Beijing (936-1122)

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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