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Mandarin
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Mandarin
A high public or government official of the Chinese empire; the term has been used in reference to the power wielded by a mandarin-like class of professionals—physicians, lawyers, scientists, engineers, middle managers, etc.


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Jane Grigson calls these mandarines givrées and apparently they were all the rage at dinner parties in the late Seventies.
837079 Oranges, mandarines, lemons, grapefruits, melons, pears, apples, grapes, pomegranates, peaches, plums, cherries, strawberries and all types of fresh fruits, onions, tomatoes, potatoes, garlic, artichokes, green beans, lettuces and in general all types of fresh vegetables and greens; all included in Class 31.
where, though the rich or the owners of large capitals enjoy a good deal of security, the poor or the owners of small capitals enjoy scarce any, but are liable, under the pretence of justice, to be pillaged and plundered at any time by the inferior mandarines, the quantity of stock employed in all the different branches of business transacted within it, can never be equal to what the nature and extent of that business might admit.
 
 
 
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