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Chinese
Pronunciation
Noun
綠衣房
- (American (–1980) Cantonese) police station
1888, T. L. Stedman, K. P. Lee, Phrase Book in the Canton Dialect or Dialogues on Ordinary and Familiar Subjects [英語不求人]:
第十六課 去綠衣房 [Cantonese, trad.]
第十六课 去绿衣房 [Cantonese, simp.]- dai6 sap6 luk6 fo3, heoi3 luk6 ji1 fong4
- Lesson 16. At a Police Station.
1901, 李壬 [Paul Lee Gyim], Chinese-English Elementary Reader and Arithmetic [英語尋源兼算學], page 46:
第一號綠衣房 [Cantonese, trad.]
第一号绿衣房 [Cantonese, simp.]- dai6 jat1 hou6 luk6 ji1 fong4
- First precinct station house.
References
- Lorraine Dong, Marlon K. Hom (1980) “Chinatown Chinese: The San Francisco Dialect”, in Amerasia