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Cochin China

noun

  1. a former French colony of Indochina (1862–1948): now the part of Vietnam that lies south of Phan Thiet
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

He belongs to Borneo and Cochin-China, where he assembles in large troops, and feeds wholly on fruit.

To Cochin-China also belongs the Douc, a very large species, remarkable for their coat of many colours.

Over the door was a print "of the seventy servants of God," martyred in Cochin China and those parts in the last few years.

We saw here a professor who was under sentence of death in Cochin China, but escaped.

On leaving Cochin China she had drawn 31 feet of water, but on her arrival at Dartmouth she drew only 26.

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