Crossword-Solution: MANDARINS
We have 8 clues for the answer “MANDARINS”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Officials of Chinese Empire. | 1 answer |
| Pompous elite group | 1 answer |
| Powerful bureaucrats | 1 answer |
| Shades or orange | 1 answer |
| Small, sweet oranges | 1 answer |
| Tangerine-bearing trees | 1 answer |
| Types of oranges | 1 answer |
| Oranges. | 3 answers |
✏️ Suggest another clue
Know another question for crossword solution "MANDARINS"? Please add your clue to the biggest crossword databank now!
Kind of apple
?
E
?
A
?
T
?
E
?
R
Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RATEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
15 +1
New Suggestion for "MANDARINS"
Related word tools
Sentences with MANDARINS (5)
The wall-paper was admirable--hundreds and hundreds of tiny Japanese mandarins, all identically alike, helping hundreds of almond-eyed ladies into hundreds of impossible junks, while hundreds of bamboo palms overshadowed the pair, and hundreds of long-legged storks trailed contemptuously away from the scene.
And then he possessed the most delightful _chinoiseries_—trophies of his sojourn in the Celestial Empire: pagodas of ebony and cabinets of ivory; sculptured monsters, grinning and leering on chimney-pieces, in front of beautifully figured hand-screens; porcelain dinner-sets, gleaming behind the glass doors of mahogany buffets; large screens, in corners, covered with tense silk and embroidered with mandarins and dragons.
Darrow mounted these, and opening the door entered a small circular room hung with loosened strips of painted paper whereon spectrally faded Mandarins executed elongated gestures.
Shell-fish are sometimes thought not very wholesome.” We all shook our heads like female mandarins; but, at last, Mrs Jamieson suffered herself to be persuaded, and we followed her lead.
But long before we reached the shore, several mandarins came down to the water’s edge waving their swords and shouting angrily to warn us off.
Quotes with MANDARINS (3)
The mandarins of culture — what do they do to teach the common folk to read? It's no good writing down lists of books for farmers and compiling five-foot shelves; you've got to go out and visit the people yourself — take the books to them, talk to the teachers and bully the editors of country newspapers and farm magazines and tell the children stories — and then little by little you begin to get good books circulating in the veins of the nation. It's a great work, mind you!
What is the use of beauty in woman? Provided a woman is physically well made and capable of bearing children, she will always be good enough in the opinion of economists. What is the use of music? -- of painting? Who would be fool enough nowadays to prefer Mozart to Carrel, Michael Angelo to the inventor of white mustard? There is nothing really beautiful save what is of no possible use. Everything useful is ugly, for it expresses a need, and man's needs are low and disgustin…
Toadstool mandarins are a form of toxic jellyfish whose tentacles are loaded with entheogenic venom. The effects of a mandarin sting are threefold. The first is a sharp stinging sensation; the second a nasty red welt, which may fester if not treated with a salve of toadstool mandarin doodoo. And the third is a bold of self-awareness, thanks to the entheogens in the venom. Having been stung, a victim's typical reaction will be something like: Owww. Zark, that hurts. Then: Oh n…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1946–2006).