Japon
name
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Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 Obsolete form of Japan. alt-of, obsolete
"Thus he [Toyotomi Hideyoshi], which in his youth had vſed to cut wood and carry it into the Market to ſell for his daily ſuſtenance, for his valure promoted in militarie honours, at laſt became the greateſt Monarch that Iapon had ſeene in eight hundred yeares, […]"
Example
More examples"Thus he [Toyotomi Hideyoshi], which in his youth had vſed to cut wood and carry it into the Market to ſell for his daily ſuſtenance, for his valure promoted in militarie honours, at laſt became the greateſt Monarch that Iapon had ſeene in eight hundred yeares, […]"
Etymology
Possibly from New Latin Iapō̆nia or French Japon or Cantonese 日本 (jat⁶ bun²).
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