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Forbidden City

Definition of Forbidden City
  • 1an area of Beijing containing the former imperial palaces, to which entry was forbidden to all except the members of the imperial family and their servants.
  • 2a name given to Lhasa in Tibet.

Forbidden City in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of Forbidden City in the US English dictionary
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