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Annamese

American  
[an-uh-meez, -mees] / ˌæn əˈmiz, -ˈmis /

adjective

  1. of or relating to Annam, its people, or their language.


noun

Annamese plural
  1. a native of Annam.

  2. former name of the language Vietnamese.

Annamese British  
/ ˌænəˈmiːz /

adjective

  1. of or relating to Annam

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. a former word for Vietnamese

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

Etymology

Origin of Annamese

First recorded in 1820–30; Annam + -ese

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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.

From Time Magazine Archive

Probably no man in the U. S. is as familiar as he with events in the Hedjaz or in Iraq, with the doings of Afghans or Parsees or the Annamese.

From Time Magazine Archive

Marine helicopters swarmed like giant, olive-green dragonflies over the fog-cloaked Annamese mountains in the northern part of South Viet Nam.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Annamese mountain chain sloped and plunged from the Laotian border eastward into the tight flatiron plains that hugged the coast, generating white water rivers and misty waterfalls.

From Time Magazine Archive

These administer justice in accordance both with French law and, in the case of natives, with Annamese law, which has been codified for the purpose.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" by Various

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