mandarindom

English

Etymology

mandarin +‎ -dom

Noun

mandarindom (uncountable)

1. (rare) The state or essence of being a mandarin.
   • 1887, Frederic Henry Balfour, Leaves from my Chinese Scrapbook, Chapter 8, page 72:

     ...and though no one who sees the shaggy, unkempt brutes, with their tawdry garniture and jingling necklaces of bells, which are used by the gentry, soldiery, and mandarindom of the empire,...