Cochin China
Britishnoun
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She had her bases in Indo-China as planned�a long strip of Annamese coast on the China Sea, a hunk of Cochin China across the Gulf of Siam from Malaya and, diagonally, from Singapore.
From Time Magazine Archive
Annam, the only empire in French Asia, lies facing the China Sea between the French protectorates of Cochin China and Tonking.
From Time Magazine Archive
All the logic of the Me Generation was actually headlong flight from the lethal surprises found in obscure Cochin China.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Vietnamese wanted to incorporate the southern province of Cochin China, because, they said, its people were mainly Annamese.
From Time Magazine Archive
Oh, it is a Cochin China fowl, an image of some of our neighbours, like the others.
From Where There is Nothing Being Volume I of Plays for an Irish Theatre by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)
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