Lieuchieu

English

Etymology

From French [Term?], from Mandarin 琉球 (Liúqiú).

Proper noun

Lieuchieu (plural Lieuchieux)

1. (historical) Synonym of Ryukyu
   • 1805 August, William Robert Broughton, “A Voyage of Diſcovery to the North Pacific Ocean : performed in his Majeſty's Ship Providence and her Tender, in the Years 1795, 1796, 1797, 1798”, in The Imperial Review‎^[1], →OCLC, page 138:

     He now directed his courſe between the continent and Formoſa, and, paſſing round the north end of that iſland, and by the great Lieuchieu (where he touched) he came to Japan, and traced its ſouth and eaſt coaſts, to Cape Namba, the N. E. point of that iſland.

   • 1805, The Annual Review and History of Literature for 1804‎^[2], volume III, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, →OCLC, page 93:

     From Tchosan captain Broughton proceeded to the Yellow Sea ; then standing to the east, he examined a cluster of small islands, about 3° north of the Lieuchieu-group, and afterwards Corea, made the best of his way, by the usual track to the north of Formosa, to Macao, where he arrived on the 27th of November.

   • 1844, Catalogue of the Manuscript Maps, Charts, and Plans, and of the Topographical Drawings in the British Museum‎^[3], volume I, London, →OCLC, page 36:

     Portions of a large General Atlas or Chart of the World, on a plane scale, drawn in colors on vellum, by a Dutch artists, whose initials are Du. P., at Batavia, in 1662-1683.[...]The coast of China to 35° N., with the islands of Formosa and Kiusiu, the isles of Lieuchieu, etc.; on 5 sheets : together 8 f. 2 in. x 1 f. 10 in.

   • 1859, “CHINESE EMPIRE”, in A Gazetteer of the World: Or, Dictionary of Geographical Knowledge‎^[4], volume II, Edinburgh: A. Fullarton & Co., →OCLC, page 514:

     The Chinese empire comprehends CHINA PROPER, the peninsula of COREA, the islands of HAINAN, FORMOSA, and the LIEUCHIEU archipelago; MANDSHURIA, including LIATUNG; MONGOLIA, SUNGARIA, LITTLE BUKHARIA, EASTERN and WESTERN TIBET, and the territories of the Tartars of KOKONOR.