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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 Ca·thay /kæˈθe/
 中國

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 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.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 Cathay
      n : an archaic or literary name for China