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La·chine (lə s̸hēn′)

city in S Quebec, Canada, on Montreal Island: pop. 35,000

Etymology: < Fr chine, China: derisive name applied to the land grant of explorer Sieur Robert Cavelier de La Salle, in ref. to his failure to find a westward passage to China

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