Annamese
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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.
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
Yearners after glory and national prestige -mostly nostalgic royalists -were left free to expand the French empire and carry out France's "civilizing mission" among the Annamese, Tonkinese, Tunisians, Algerians, Moroccans, Togolanders and Tahitians.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some of the carvings there depict battles between the Khmers of ancient Cambodia and the Annamese, forebears of present-day Vietnamese.
From Time Magazine Archive
Taking in the suburban population the inhabitants numbered in 1905 about 110,000, including 103,000 Annamese, 2289 Chinese and 2665 French, exclusive of troops.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" by Various
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