Cochinchina

[ koh-chin-chahy-nuh, koch-in- ]

noun

1. a former state in south French Indochina: now part of Vietnam.

Example Sentences

The fathers have been restored to their former liberty in Cochinchina.

From Project Gutenberg

It is learned also that Father Alberto de Polonia was brought to Cochinchina, and that he is now in Macan, where for some time he suffered from a most severe illness.

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He asserts the same of Cochinchina, although there is a greater difference in language.

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True, those of Macassar, of Cochinchina, and of Cambaya, are more powerful.

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With the penetration of the French, it was divided into the colonial units of Tongking, Annam and Cochinchina.

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