Pekin definition

pēkĭn
A striped or figured silk fabric.
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A large white domestic duck of a Chinese breed, widely raised in the United States for food.
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A striped silk material, orig. from China.
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Any of a breed of large, white domestic duck, originating in China, raised esp. for its meat.
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Origin of pekin

  • French pékin after Pékin (Beijing), China

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Pekin Sentence Examples

  • In Korea, the " Hermit Nation," or as the Koreans prefer to say, " The Land of the Morning Calm," Christianity was introduced at the end of the 18th century by some members of the Korean legation at Pekin who had met Roman Catholic missionaries.

  • They showed a zeal for evangelization which resulted in the establishment of their influence throughout Asia, as is seen from the bishoprics founded not only in Syria, Armenia, Arabia and Persia, but at Halavan in Media, Mer y in Khorasan, Herat, Tashkent, Samarkand, Baluk, Kashgar, and even at Kambaluk (Pekin) and Singan fu Hsi`en fu in China, and Kaljana and Kranganore in India.

  • Marco Polo is witness that there were Nestorian churches all along the trade routes from Bagdad to Pekin.

  • He soon won the confidence of the emperor Kien-lung and spent the remainder of his life at Pekin, where he died on the 9th of October 1793.

  • Twice a year, in spring and autumn,' a Chinese ruler goes in state to the imperial college in Pekin, and presents the appointed offerings before the spirit-tablets of Confucius and of the worthies who have been associated with him in his temples.

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