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- proper noun any of three Chinese surnames of Cantonese origin, used primarily in Hong Kong
Etymologies
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Examples
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I think they believe that I am "Ngai" (of the Divinity) because I am so white and have fair hair.
Allan Quatermain Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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But it's the lunchtime dim sum menu that has put the Ngai family's restaurant on the local foodie map.
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Philip Jones Griffith's "Wounded Civilian—Female, Quang Ngai, Vietnam, 1967" shows a woman whose entire head is wrapped in bandages.
Gift Guide: Photography Books William Meyers 2011
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In Quang Ngai we were sent in after a seven month rampage by members of an army unit.
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In Quang Ngai we were sent in after a seven month rampage by members of an army unit.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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Aslock (sic) was captured alive in Quang Ngai Province.
19 New POW Cases 2008
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Russ Grissett was taken to a Quang Ngai POW Camp and held with other
19 New POW Cases 2008
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Mae Ngai has chosen to write about the class of Chinese who, in the early days of immigration, owed their existence to profiting from the legal regime of racial discrimination ....
Mae Ngai's "The Lucky Ones: The Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America" 2010
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Mae Ngai has chosen to write about the class of Chinese who, in the early days of immigration, owed their existence to profiting from the legal regime of racial discrimination ....
Mae Ngai's "The Lucky Ones: The Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America" 2010
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Ngai, “How Chinatown rose from the ashes,” International Herald Tribune, April 18, 2006.
American Chinatown Bonnie Tsui 2009
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