mandarindom

noun

mandarindom

noun

Etymology From mandarin + -dom.

1

Rare The state or essence of being a mandarin.

  • ...and though no one who sees the shaggy, unkempt brutes, with their tawdry garniture and jingling necklaces of bells, which are used by the gentry, soldiery, and mandarindom of the empire,...1887, Frederic Henry Balfour, Leaves from my Chinese Scrapbook, Chapter 8, page 72:

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