Indo-Chinese [
'ɪndotʃaɪ'niz]
a. 印度支那的, 印度支那人的, 印度支那语的
n. 印度支那人
Indochinese \In`do*chi*nese"\, Indo-Chinese \In`do-Chi*nese"\,
prop. a. [Indo- + Chinese.]
1. Of or pertaining to Indo-China (i. e., Farther India, or
India beyond the Ganges).
2. 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.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- With a Rockefeller Foundation playwrights-in-residence grant, she lived among Hispanic, Vietnamese, Salvadoran, Panamanian and Indo-Chinese immigrants in Los Angeles.