The Collaborative International Dictionary
Indochinese \In`do*chi*nese"\, Indo-Chinese \In`do-Chi*nese"\, prop. a. [Indo- + Chinese.]
Of or pertaining to Indo-China (i. e., Farther India, or India beyond the Ganges).
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Of or pert. to the Mongoloid races of India, esp. Farther India, or designating, or of, their languages.
Tradition and comparative philology agree in pointing to northwestern China, between the upper courses of the Yang-tsekiang and of the Ho-ang-ho, as the original home of the Indo-Chinese race.
--Census of India, 1901.
Usage examples of "indochinese".
When he realized that the Allies were not even willing to talk with him about independence, he dissolved the Communist party and called every Indochinese patriot to gather under the flag of liberation.
As a rule, we trusted no one and considered every native Indochinese a potential enemy, unless half of his or her family had been executed by the Viet Minh.
Her last words caught my attention for native Indochinese would have said "Legion," not French Army.
Our two Indochinese friends asked my permission to collect the weapons of the dead Chinese, saying that they could use the rifles later on, at home.
As a rule we trusted no Chinese or Indochinese and we also had some misgivings about the judgment of American generals.
Our faithful little Indochinese companion knew it too and he accepted the inevitable with a faint ironic smile saying: "We all have to go one day.
Someone had to go and only a native Indochinese could penetrate the base.
And nowadays, Indochinese refugee kids do great in school even though they got no money at all and their folks don't speak English.
You see, in the Indochinese jungle, so legend says, there is a city in which lives a thousand-headed man.
Two, perhaps three million Indochinese died, and 58,000 American lives were lost.