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Chinese Wall   /tʃaɪnˈiz wɔl/   Listen
Chinese Wall

noun
1.
A fortification 1,500 miles long built across northern China in the 3rd century BC; it averages 6 meters in width.  Synonyms: Great Wall, Great Wall of China.





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"Chinese Wall" Quotes from Famous Books



... on the subject, usually Maskilim, thought it their duty to cast a stone at Hasidism. They described it as a Chinese wall shutting the Jews in and shutting the world out. It is becoming more and more plainly recognized and admitted, that it was, in reality, an attempt at reform rendered imperative by the tyranny of the kahal, the rigorism of the rabbis, the superciliousness of the learned ...
— The Haskalah Movement in Russia • Jacob S. Raisin


Words linked to "Chinese Wall" :   china, rampart, wall, Communist China, PRC, bulwark, Great Wall, People's Republic of China, Red China, Cathay, mainland China


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