Poseh
Poseh proper noun: synonym of Baise.
Proper noun
Poseh
- Synonym of Baise.
- The South River is often also called the West River (constituting, as it does, the main trade route) up to a point 30 miles above Nanning, where it is bifurcated into the Left Branch leading to Lungchow, and the Right Branch leading to Poseh, whence is a main trade route into Yunnan, by which the...1920, Hosea Ballou Morse, The Trade and Administration of China, 3rd revised edition, Longmans, Green & Co., page 289
- Two lines of travel lead south and east from Yunnanfu. One is the route of the railway through Mengtsz to French Indo-China, with a caravan trail which branches off to Szemao in the southwest. The other road is the big east highway to Kwangtung. This road goes overland to Poseh at the head of...1934, George Babock Cressey, China's Geographic Foundations: A Survey of the Land and Its People, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., →OCLC, →OL, page 379
- Synonyms:
- Baise
Examples of Poseh in a sentence
- This road goes overland to Poseh at the head of navigation on the Si Kiang in western Kiangsi^([sic – meaning Kwangsi]), 355 miles distant, and requires twenty days of travel.1934, George Babock Cressey, China's Geographic Foundations: A Survey of the Land and Its People, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., →OCLC...
- He was advised to proceed to the little town of Poseh.1963, Jesse C. Fletcher, Bill Wallace of China, Nashville: Broadman Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 89:
- Junks reach far into Kwangsi, and the Yuh is navigable for many months right up to Poseh on the Yunnan border, in spite of the difficult rapids between Kweiping and Nanning.1965, R. Kay Gresswell, Anthony Huxley, editors, Standard Encyclopedia of the World's Rivers and Lakes, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons...
- When the Kwangtung army captured Nanning, he withdrew his 3,000 to 4,000 men to Paise (Poseh) near the Yunnan border and fought on there.[1979, Te-kong Tong, Li Tsung-jen, “Establishment of the Self-governing Armies”, in The Memoirs of Li Tsung-jen (Studies of the East Asian...
Synonyms of Poseh
Origin of Poseh
Borrowed from Mandarin 百色 (Bósè).
Questions about Poseh
- What does Poseh mean?
- Poseh means synonym of Baise.
- How do you use Poseh in a sentence?
- This road goes overland to Poseh at the head of navigation on the Si Kiang in western Kiangsi^([sic – meaning Kwangsi]), 355 miles distant, and requires twenty days of travel.
- What part of speech is Poseh?
- Poseh is a proper noun.
Words near Poseh in the dictionary
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