Hanoi

Definitions

1. The capital city of Vietnam.
2. the Vietnamese government.
   metonymically

Equivalents

Examples

“If you have⟳ seventeen days and £168 to spare⟳, can satisfy⟳ the Iron⟳ Curtain authorities of your bona fides and your taste⟳ runs to marathon rail travel⟳, you can now board⟳ the "Night Ferry" at Victoria and ride⟳ across the whole of Europe and Asia to Hanoi, capital of North Viet-Nam, changing carriage only at Brussels, Berlin, Moscow and Pekin.”

“YOUR SON WAS SERIOUSLY WOUNDED WHEN SHOT DOWN IN HANOI BUT HAS MADE FINE RECOVERY AND NOW, ACCORDING THIS GROUP, LOOKS "QUITE WELL." HE HAS BEEN EVERYTHING YOU WANT⟳ YOUR SON TO BE AND HAS STOOD UP MANFULLY AGAINST ALL EFFORTS TO PERSUADE⟳ HIM TO UTTER TRAITOROUS STATEMENTS.”

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