Annamese
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Etymology
Origin of Annamese
Example Sentences
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The Vietnamese wanted to incorporate the southern province of Cochin China, because, they said, its people were mainly Annamese.
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When the Chinese withdrew in 939, the Annamese turned conquerors in their turn.
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The 3,600 members of National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia still believe there may be loved ones locked in prisons hidden somewhere in the impenetrable Annamese Cordillera.
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Marine helicopters swarmed like giant, olive-green dragonflies over the fog-cloaked Annamese mountains in the northern part of South Viet Nam.
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Annamese, or, to use the native term, the Giao-chi, are the predominant people not only in Annam but in the lowland and cultivated parts of Tongking and in Cochin-China and southern Cambodia.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various
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