Ca·thay /kæˈθe/
中國
Ca·thay n. China; -- an old name for the Celestial Empire, said have been introduced by Marco Polo and to be a corruption of the Tartar name for North China (Khitai, the country of the Khitans.)
Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay. --Tennyson.
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Cathay
n : an archaic or literary name for China