Chichi

//ˈʃi.ʃi//

"Chichi" in a Sentence (16 examples)

Going in gangs to those chichi clubs at Maidenhead.

We drove up the mountain and found the narrow streets chock full of chichi tourists.

The sort of real delicious Italian country cooking that is a revelation after so much chichi Italian food dished up in London.

Not since a journalist morphed into Al Pacino in The Devil’s Advocate has a metamorphosis been so jarring. Of course, there were clues: Michael kicked a puppy in the very second episode, and no self-respecting Elysium so closely resembles a chichi outdoor mall in Pasadena.

If this was in Cornwall, which it so closely resembles, it would have become the most chichi of gentrified enclaves, colonised by big-name chefs and celebrity regulars.

But if the mix is no longer about life's essentials, and instead a new wave of chichi cafés, artisan bakers and fancy nail bars—are we right to ask, not how useful is your high street, but how bougie?

[H]e rubbed [his hands] with Bag Balm to help the cuts heal and keep the skin soft, a trick he'd learned from his grandmother, who told him when he was eighteen and getting ready for a date that no woman wanted to feel rough hands scratching up her chichis.

And later, in Latin Grill Express, Jesus makes sure to compliment her accent, her vocabulary, to express admiration for the way her chichis looked in the last dress all over again, then Sarah asks about his plans for work, what he will do when they all leave.

This experiment was carried out on a 13° (24%) slope banana plantation with clay loam soil at Chichi, Nantou Hsien from September 1970 to December 1975.

South of Songpoling is Yuanchuan, a station on the famous Chichi Railway Line. Named after the picturesque small town of Chichi to the east, trains on this line take 50 minutes to travel the less than 30 km (19 miles) of narrow gauge that span the rustic countryside between Changhua and Nantou counties, making it the island’s most popular tourist railway line. Though Chichi was the epicenter of the 9-21 Earthquake (sometimes referred to in Taiwan as the Chichi Earthquake), and was nearly levelled, the railway line is already restored, the colonial-style station rebuilt, and the town on the way to recovery.

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Compared to the disaster areas of Chichi and Puli in central Taiwan, the areas that were relatively unaffected by the earthquake can be said to have encountered a strong karmic retribution but got away with little harm.

Nine months after the ‘Interim Statute’ took effect a magnitude 7.6 earthquake hit Taiwan on 21 September 1999, which was generally referred to as the 921 Earthquake.⁵¹ The epicentre — Chichi (Jiji) — was roughly 20 kilometres to the south of Chunghsing New Village, and the earthquake destroyed almost half of the community.

On February 25, Magistrate Lin Ming-chen surveyed a few pieces of land at Jushan, Chichi, Nantou, Caotun, and more, accompanied by the staff of the Department of Finance, Department of Land Administration, and other related offices.[…] Then Magistrate Lin went to Chichi, Caotun, and Nantou. He surveyed Chichi Train Station, the agricultural land behind Caotun Water Plant, Caotun Second Cemetery, Zen Cultural Park, the public parking lot by Zhongshan Village at Caotun Town, and the land for dumping used equipment along Wenhua Road in Nantou City.

To settle in Taiwan and earn his living, he opened a ramen restaurant in Chichi Township (集集), a popular tourist destination in Nantou, where a multitude of temples are located, he said.

This photo shows school children climbing a tree with a professional instructor at an event in Nantou County on Saturday. The activity was organized by the county's Chichi township office and attracted up to 60 participants.

All plants were collected in March and then transplanted to pots (16-cm diameter, 12-cm depth, 1 plant per pot for the five woody species and As. antiquum, and 1 rhizome with 3–4 leaves per pot for the other 3 ferns) filled with organic soil and maintained outdoors in the nursery of the Endemic Species Research Institute, Chichi Township, Nantou County, Taiwan (23°49′ N, 120°48′ E, 250 m a.s.l.).

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