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Laotian

Laotian \Laotian\ prop. n. a native or inhabitant of Laos.

Laotian

Laotian \Laotian\ prop. a.

  1. of or pertaining to Laos; as, the Laotian Prime Minister.

  2. of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Laos; as, Laotian refugees.

Usage examples of "laotian".

Shamans in a County Mental Health Setting: A Bicultural Model for Healing Laotian Mountain People.

Laotian language and lived in a village with a Laotian family, interviewed hundreds of refugees from the bombing who poured into the capital city of Vientiane.

A military situation map of Vietnam in early 1965 would show that on a direct line running west from the coastal city of Quang Ngai across the country to the Laotian border, there were only two friendly outposts: an ARVN infantry battalion at Ba Gia, located between us and Quang Ngai, and our camp at Ha Thanh.

Now there was only one outpost between Quang Ngai and the Laotian border--us.

So we landed into a designated landing zone, probably about ten miles outside Khe Sanh toward the Laotian border.

And down on the other side, they had the Laotian army and some Thai army down there.

The day a new Raven arrived, you would process through the American embassy to get your Laotian drivers license, to get your embassy ID card.

The Australian Rules of Engagement prohibited their pilots from flying within five kilometers of either the Laotian or Cambodian borders, and their command was serious about it.

I gather he did this with some kind of Laotian hand gestures -- Zick went ape and did a lot of yelling.

On this occasion, she thought the doctor was gentle and kind, she was impressed that so many people were there to help her, and although she felt that the nurses who bathed Lia with Safeguard did not get her quite as clean as she had gotten her newborns with Laotian stream water, her only major complaint concerned the hospital food.

But more often they were three-way deals, cash at both ends and a trade in the middle: a consignment of Laotian teak marooned by bankruptcy in Singapore that they traded to the Poles for a warehouse of glass, which they sold on, strictly cash on delivery, to a discount warehouse in Chicago.

In November 1953, French paratroopers occupied Dien Bien Phu in northwestern Vietnam, ten miles from the Laotian border.

The Navy sent a Marine Sigint detachment to Pleiku, where they targeted Laotian and North Vietnamese communications.

Others eavesdropped on tactical communications by both North Vietnamese and Laotian Communist forces.

Lee, in translating this, added that the feeling was common among Vietnamese, North and South, and was matched by a Cambodian contempt for Vietnamese, and exceeded by the distaste felt by Laotians for Thais, and vice versa.