pekin

name

1. (alt-of, obsolete)Obsolete form of Peking.

   “The same country furnishes me with another instance of extended inland commerce. It is found worth while to keep up a mercantile communication between Pekin in China, and Petersburgh. And none of these instances of inland commerce exceed those of the courses by which, at several periods, the whole of the trade of the East was carried on.”

   “His father, Tchoung-Heou, was living at Pekin when he was born ; and he was six years old when the former settled at Shang-hai.”

   “If you have seventeen days and £168 to spare, can satisfy the Iron Curtain authorities of your bona fides and your taste runs to marathon rail travel, you can now board the "Night Ferry" at Victoria and ride across the whole of Europe and Asia to Hanoi, capital of North Viet-Nam, changing carriage only at Brussels, Berlin, Moscow and Pekin.”

2. A city, the county seat of Tazewell County, Illinois.
3. A hamlet in New York.
4. A city and village in North Dakota.

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)A type of patterned silk.