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Chinese geomancy
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Noun
Chinese geomancy (uncountable)
- Feng shui.
- 1842, William B. Langdon, Ten Thousand Things Relating to China and the Chinese, London: William B. Langdon, page 59:
- His attendants then assembled all the old men and fathers of the village to examine by divination the sources of the lakes and streams, and then pursuing the high land adjoining, and found the wind and water in the highest degree propitious.* [footnote: i.e., On the principles of Chinese geomancy the aspect was favorable.]
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