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Honan

[ hoh-nan; Chinese ³ó²Õ-nahn ]

noun

  1. Wade-Giles. Henan.
  2. (usually lowercase) Textiles.
    1. a pongee fabric made from the filaments of the wild silkworm.
    2. a lustrous fabric simulating pongee and woven from fibers other than silk.


honan

1

/ ˈ³óəʊˈ²Ôæ²Ô /

noun

  1. sometimes capital a silk fabric of rough weave
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Honan

2

/ ˈ³óəʊˈ²Ôæ²Ô /

noun

  1. a variant transliteration of the Chinese name for Henan
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins

Origin of Honan1

First recorded in 1880–85; named after Honan, where the fabric was first manufactued
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51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins

Origin of Honan1

C20: from Honan, former name of Henan , where it is made
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Honan is prepared to put mayors and other public officials in prison if they unlawfully interfere with the Trump administration’s mass deportation plans.

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“Glass, and the other things like it, won’t always be ugly and awkward,†Mat Honan wrote in Wired in 2013, in a retrospective of a year of wearing the device.

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Lyniv’s sense of rubato created just enough elasticity for the singers to phrase naturally, as in the ministers’ dreamily nostalgic “Ho una casa nell’Honan.â€

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"I've had so many of my friends and my peers come and say, 'God, I couldn't talk to anyone about this; I felt so uncomfortable; I felt scared at times'," explains Ellie Honan, a polar scientist in her 20s and co-president of UKPN.

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Democratic polling and strategy group Honan Strategy Group is meanwhile trying to develop an AI survey bot.

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