Definition of Cathey

Definition of Cathey

Cathay, the name given to China by mediæval writers, which it still bears in Central Asia.

- Wikipedia

Ca*thay" (?), n. China; -- an old name for the Celestial Empire, said have been introduced by Marco Polo and to be a corruption of the Tartar name for North China (Khitai, the country of the Khitans.)

Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.
Tennyson.

- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Cathay is the name that was given to northern China by Marco Polo

- The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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