tao tai

See also: taotai and táotài

English

Noun

tao tai (countable and uncountable, plural tao tai or tao tais)

1. Alternative form of daotai
   • 1951, Herbert Hoover, The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover, Years of Adventure 1874-1920‎^[1], New York: Macmillan Company, →OCLC, →OL, page 44:

     These missionaries were good people of whose devotion America can be proud. Some months later under Boxer mob-violence they were driven out on to the Gobi Desert. But the Tao Tai gave them protection which saw them safely across the desert to the Russian frontier, though with much hardship.