Amazingly, it even made its way into Chinese as folangji (佛郎機): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farang#Etymology_and_related_words https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Amazingly, it even made its way into Chinese as folangji (佛郎機): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farang#Etymology_and_related_words https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farang#Etymology_and_related_w... Sort of reminds me of an anecdote I read somewhere in a book about medieval fashion - one theory is that those curvy-toed shoes you see in late medieval artwork originated in Tang dynasty China, and the fashion took ~500 years to slowly make its way west across Eurasia.