Topic: OFFICIALS
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| Date: | 1700-1800 |
| Language: | French |
| Origin: | mandarine, from Spanish mandarina, probably from mandarín ' MANDARIN3'; perhaps because mandarins wore orange-colored clothes. |
| Date: | 1500-1600 |
| Language: | Portuguese |
| Origin: | mandarim, from Malay menteri, from Sanskrit mantrin 'adviser', from mantra; MANTRA |
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mandarin
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[countable]1DF also mandarin orange a kind of small orange with skin that is easy to remove
2 British EnglishPGO an important government official who people think has too much power : 
Civil Service mandarins
Civil Service mandarins3PGO an important government official in the former Chinese empire
