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Old Oct 24, 2004 | 1:06 am
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Originally Posted by Fliar
What is a Cathay?
"Cathay" is the old term for "China". (Marco Polo, for example, is always talked of as having gone to Cathay.)

"Cathy" is not to be confused with "Cathy", who apparently was the girl Marco was running off to the Far East to escape from.
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