Bao Dai

[ bou dahy ]

noun

1. Nguyen Vinh Thuy, 1913–97, emperor of Annam 1925–45, chief of state of Vietnam 1949–55.

Example Sentences

A Rolex watch that belonged to the last Emperor of Vietnam, Bao Dai, fetched $5 million at an auction in 2017.

From Reuters

But he resisted calls to join Ho’s Communist Party — “They didn’t respect our religion or traditions,” he later told Ellsberg — and defected in 1949 to join French-backed forces loyal to Bao Dai, the last emperor of Vietnam.

From Washington Post

They didn’t know Bao Dai from the man in the moon.

From Literature

His worst nightmare, he said in an interview, was to be pushed out of his country’s political life into a quiet retirement, like Vietnam’s last empower, Bao Dai, who died in obscurity in Paris in 1997.

From New York Times

Over the years, that clientele grew to include royalty, most notably in the 1930s the French-educated Empress Nam Phuong, wife of Emperor Bao Dai of Vietnam, much admired in her time for her style and elegance.

From New York Times