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Cochin

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Co·chin 1  (kchn)
A region and former princely state of southwest India on the Malabar Coast of the Arabian Sea. The city of Cochin was visited by Vasco da Gama in 1502 and colonized by the Portuguese in the following year. It was taken by the Dutch in 1663 and occupied by the British in 1795. Population: 596,000.
Co·chin 2  (kchn)
n.
See Cochin China2.
Cochin [ˈkəʊtʃɪn ˈkɒtʃ-]
n
1. (Placename) a region and former state of SW India: part of Kerala state since 1956
2. (Placename) a port in SW India, on the Malabar Coast: the first European settlement in India, founded by Vasco da Gama in 1502: shipbuilding, engineering. Pop.: 564 589 (1991)
3. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Breeds) a large breed of domestic fowl, with dense plumage and feathered legs, that originated in Cochin China
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Noun1.Cochincochin - Asian breed of large fowl with dense plumage and feathered legs
cochin china
domestic fowl, fowl, poultry - a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl


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The captain as often as possible put up his sails, and under the double action of steam and sail the vessel made rapid progress along the coasts of Anam and Cochin China.
Around The World In Eighty Days by Verne, Jules View in context
My partner endeavoured to encourage me by describing the several ports of that coast, and told me he would put in on the coast of Cochin China, or the bay of Tonquin, intending afterwards to go to Macao, where a great many European families resided, and particularly the missionary priests, who usually went thither in order to their going forward to China.
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The birds that the two girls had brought in were duly returned to the yard, and the process was repeated till all the pet cocks and hens had been submitted to the old woman--Hamburghs, Bantams, Cochins, Brahmas, Dorkings, and such other sorts as were in fashion just then--her perception of each visitor being seldom at fault as she received the bird upon her knees.
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