noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
mandarin orange
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Great guy, Jim: the son of a mandarin .
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Male actors could not become mandarins, nor could actresses marry aristocrats.
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Otherwise they will have barely tried life under Maastricht before their mandarins must start haggling again.
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So the mandarins set about finding an alternative.
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The avenue ends with ferocious looking stone generals and solemn looking mandarins of various kinds.
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The frightened mandarins agreed to parley, but Le Lieur stalled, awaiting Montigny.
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Their hero was Ngo Quyen, a provincial mandarin .
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Today you have watched our mandarins banging their foreheads on the flagstones - but not for our emperor!