Luding
name, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 present participle and gerund of lude form-of, gerund, participle, present
- 1 A county of Garzê prefecture, Sichuan, China.
"Originally, planks had been laid across the nine chains, and the whole bridge, suspended between two cliffs, swayed like a cradle with the motions of the person walking upon it. Now the planks were gone, having been taken by the enemy into Luting City. All that remained were the black hanging chains."
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More examples"Originally, planks had been laid across the nine chains, and the whole bridge, suspended between two cliffs, swayed like a cradle with the motions of the person walking upon it. Now the planks were gone, having been taken by the enemy into Luting City. All that remained were the black hanging chains."
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 瀘定／泸定 (Lúdìng).
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