Proper noun
Long An
A province of Vietnam.
The free man cannot be long an ignorant man. William McKinley
I always have felt strange when we came home To the dark house after so long an absence, And the key rattled loudly into place Seemed to warn someone to be getting out At one door as we entered at another. Robert Frost
Intel has a long an ugly history of behaving unethically, mostly against competitors like AMD and more recently Qualcomm (its partner in this, Apple, was just highlighted as being basically anti-innovation). Rob Enderle
He who would be long an old man must begin betimes. Italian Proverb