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- noun A
domestic cat breed , across between aSiamese andBurmese cat
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Examples
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The photos are all of "the boys," Snicker and Doodle that is, our Tonkinese cats.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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The photos are all of "the boys," Snicker and Doodle that is, our Tonkinese cats.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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But it seems odd today that the theme appears in a show with no black characters, even though one of the original leads, Juanita Hall, who played the "Tonkinese" Bloody Mary, was African-American.
Out of Our Dreams 2002
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But it seems odd today that the theme appears in a show with no black characters, even though one of the original leads, Juanita Hall, who played the "Tonkinese" Bloody Mary, was African-American.
Out of Our Dreams 2002
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In contrast Loretta Ables Sayre gives a full-blooded performance as the Tonkinese pedlar, Bloody Mary, that brings out the character's sinister predatoriness.
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Bloody Mary, the Tonkinese Mother Courage who sells grass skirts, shrunken heads and pimps her own daughter, is Loretta Ables Sayre, a member of the Lincoln Center cast.
Falling in Love With the Barbican's Wonderful 'South Pacific' Paul Levy 2011
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The drama centers on the brief but intense coupling of a lovely Tonkinese girl, (Liat) with a young American Marine (Lt. Joe Cable) paralleling the more leisurely romance between a French expatriate, Emile De Becque, and Ensign Nellie Forbush, a saucy US nurse.
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The drama centers on the brief but intense coupling of a lovely Tonkinese girl, (Liat) with a young American Marine (Lt. Joe Cable) paralleling the more leisurely romance between a French expatriate, Emile De Becque, and Ensign Nellie Forbush, a saucy US nurse.
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Lieutenant Joe Cable, Philadelphia lawyer to be, is in love with the Tonkinese girl Liat but cannot overcome the elitist bigotry with which he has been inculcated.
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Lieutenant Joe Cable, Philadelphia lawyer to be, is in love with the Tonkinese girl Liat but cannot overcome the elitist bigotry with which he has been inculcated.
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