Maoming

Proper noun

Maoming

1. A prefecture-level city of Guangdong, China.
   • On the Glorious Fourth Fr. Gauthier said good-bye to Tungchan and the two of us set off to visit the part of the mission that is in Maoming. The first village, lying up in the mountains about twenty miles from Tungchan, was Naamshaantung, where there are about thirty baptized Christians.1919 November [1919 July 5], “Tungchan Chronicle”, in The Field Afar, Catholic Foreign Mission Bureau of Boston, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 239, column 2
   • With the arrival of Maryknoll's second group, Bishop de Guebriant enlarged their territory. He gave them the prefecture of Maoming, a large slice of country to the west of Kwangtung, including the important city of Kochow, which had no resident priest.1962, Raymond Kerrison, Bishop Walsh of Maryknoll, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 107

   Synonyms:

   Mauming