Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A variety of the domestic hen, of large size, belonging to the Asiatic class, or a specimen of this variety.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun an Asian breed of large fowl with dense plumage and feathered legs.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun Asian breed of large fowl with dense plumage and feathered legs
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Examples
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A combination of best vegetable oils, cochin and coconut oil, makes best shampoo imaginable.
The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference Joseph Triemens
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The buff cochin rooster and the huge negro and all the others I saw myself.
Vignettes of San Francisco Almira Bailey
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This is an Anamese version, printed in the "Chrestomathie cochin-chinoise"
Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler
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A buff cochin rooster was wandering about the street the other day.
Vignettes of San Francisco Almira Bailey
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We saw dozens of broods of chickens, and one or two of young guinea-fowl, being taken care of by caponized bantams, game-cocks, and cochin-chinas.
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Then there was the buff-cochin spats and the wide ribbon to his eyeglasses.
Torchy, Private Sec. Sewell Ford 1907
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He feared and hated the noises of the yard, particularly the crowing of our big buff cochin rooster and the screaming of the guineas.
Roof and Meadow Dallas Lore Sharp 1899
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But daylight showed that the party consisted of an old man, and his son, and his son's wife, and her sister, and three small children, besides some cochin-china fowl, and a black cat with vividly green eyes.
Strangers at Lisconnel Jane Barlow 1887
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Occasionally to watch their wonderful motions more closely and have speech with them, I followed when they raced over the sands or flew about over the slippery rocks, and felt like a cochin-china fowl, or muscovy duck, or dodo, trying to keep pace with a humming-bird.
Afoot in England 1881
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My opinion is divided between the south down and the cochin china.
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