According to Gladys Aylward: The Adventure of a Lifetimeby Janet and Geoff Benge the name of the inn has no signifigance. Mrs. Lawson, the lady Gladys went to China to help, just liked the sound of it.
Name #2Another name for an eight lined poem is an "octave".Another name for an eight lined poem is "triolet".
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octagon
Groups of eight are often called 'octets'.
It has to be eight words.
Octogon. Eight sides, think of OCTOpus which has eight legs.
There are eight bits in a byte - that's where the name came from... "by eight"
Eight thousand, three hundred eight ten-thousandths.
Hard eight, or eight the hard way.
The name for decimal 0.800 is eight hundred thousandths. It is also referred to as point eight in informal circumstances.
an octagon
An octogon