Lin-t'ung

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 臨潼 / 临潼, Wade–Giles romanization: Lin²-tʻung².

Proper noun

Lin-t'ung

1. Alternative form of Lintong
   • 1912, Robert Sterling Clark, Arthur de Carle Sowerby, Through Shên-kan: The Account of the Clark Expedition in North China, 1908-9.‎^[1], T. Fisher Unwin, →OCLC, page 41:

     Observations were taken at Hsi-an on the 5th and 6th, and the rate of the chronometer-watch determined; and on the 7th the party left the city and reached Lin-t’ung, a place fifty li distant, where some famous hot-springs exist.

   • 1976 March-April, “T'ang Dynasty Tomb Pottery”, in Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago‎^[2], volume 70, number 2, →OCLC, page 3, column 1:

     This revealing exhibition had scarcely closed when an even more startling announcement from the sip000> Republic of China detailed the discovery of a veritable army of life-size figures and animals in a recently opened tomb at Lin-t'ung in Shensi Province of Northwest China.

   • 2011, Prasannan Parthasarathi, “From cotton to coal”, in Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not: Global Economic Divergence, 1600-1850‎^[3], Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 171:

     I therefore had a long, narrow boat constructed, and told sailors to pilot it to Ming-chiao-k’ou in Lin-t’ung county and fetch coal from there.