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Decadence Mandchoue: The China Memoirs of Sir Edmund Trelawny Backhouse choose

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[UK] E.T. Backhouse Décadence mandchoue (2011) 115: I have good ground for belief that his tastes inclined (no less than mine own) toward (what we will euphemistically denominate) ‘bi-metallism’ [Simes:DLSS].
at bimetallism, n.
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