Tonkinese
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English
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Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]Tonkinese (not comparable)
Noun
[edit]Tonkinese (plural Tonkinese or Tonkineses)
- (chiefly in the plural) A person from Tonkin.
- 1925, Cl Chivas-Baron, Three Women of Annam, page 124:
- The Occidental who lives in that splendid house on the Phù-Cam is married to a Tonkinese. It's more than ten years ago he brought her here. He has never had any second wives. He gave his father-in-law a teakwood coffin.
- 1962, Anuruddha, The Protecting Hand:
- A great number of Legionaires had married Tonkineses and had children by them. According to French law, a child born on French soil is a citizen of France, whether the father and mother are French or not, so also in Indo-China […]
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Tonkinese.
- (countable) A domestic cat of a breed that is a cross between the Siamese and Burmese.
- Synonym: (abbreviation) Tonk
- 2001, Lorraine Shelton, The Guide to Owning a Tonkinese Cat, TFH Publications, →ISBN:
- Do not consider bringing home a Tonkinese unless you have time in your life for games […]
Usage notes
[edit]As with other terms for people formed with -ese, the countable singular noun in reference to a person (as in "I am a Tonkinese", "writing about Tonkinese cuisine as a Tonkinese") is uncommon and often taken as incorrect. In its place, the adjective is used, by itself (as in "I am Tonkinese") or before a noun like person, man, or woman ("writing about Tonkinese cuisine as a Tonkinese person"). See also -ish, which is similarly only used primarily as an adjective or as a plural noun. (This applies to the sense "a person from Tonkin".)
Translations
[edit]cat breed
Proper noun
[edit]Tonkinese
- The language of Tonkin; northern Vietnamese.
See also
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Tonkinese (cat) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Category:Tonkinese on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
