Tonkinesen.adj.

1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iii. i. 4 Several sorts of Goods, wherewith the Tonquinese usually trade to the Neighbouring Islands.

1806 J. Barrow Voy. Cochinchina ix. 251 The Tung-quinese, being in fact of the same character and disposition as the Chinese, were little able to cope with the hardy and disciplined troops.

1845 Encycl. Metrop. XXV. 673/1 In self-sufficiency and jealousy of strangers, the Tonkinese do not yield to their neighbours in China.

1884 W. Mesny Tungking xviii. 115 The protracted struggle that has been going on for long months is quite as much due to the action of China as to the Tungkingese themselves.

1885 J. G. Scott France & Tongking i. 11 Garnier and his lieutenants..enrolled many thousand Tongkinese auxiliaries.

1890 J. G. Frazer Golden Bough I. i. 36 Many other peoples (Tonquinese, Hindoos, Chuwash, etc.) have adopted the same test of a suitable victim.

1926 H. A. Franck East of Siam xii. 220 In the mess that followed the Manchu conquest of China, a Tonkinese fisherman founded a new dynasty.

1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Tonkinese, the Annamese dialect of Tonkin.

1951 M. B. Emeneau Stud. Vietnamese (Annamese) Gram. p. v Tonkinese and Chochin Chinese are slightly differentiated from one another by differences of pronunciation and of vocabulary.

1983 C. McCarry Last Supper 172 Christopher met a fellow poet, a Tonkinese who had studied at the Sorbonne... The Tonkinese poet was a female.