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[koh-chin, koch-in]

noun

one of an Asian breed of chickens, resembling the Brahma but slightly smaller.

Origin:
1850–55; short for Cochin-China fowl

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noun

a seaport in W Kerala, in SW India: first European fort in India, built by Portuguese 1503. 438,420.

a former state in SW India; merged with Travancore 1949; a part of Kerala state since 1956.

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Cochin (ˈkəʊtʃɪn, ˈkɒtʃ-)

—n
1.	a region and former state of SW India: part of Kerala state since 1956
2.	Local official name: Kochi 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: 596 473 (2001)
3.	a large breed of domestic fowl, with dense plumage and feathered legs, that originated in Cochin China

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Cochin

town and major port on the Arabian Sea, west-central Kerala state, southwestern India. Also the name of a former princely state, "Cochin" is sometimes used today to refer to a cluster of islands and towns, including Ernakulam, Mattancheri, Fort Cochin, Willingdon Island, Vypin Island, and Gundu Island. The urban agglomeration includes the localities of Trikkakara, Eloor, Kalamassery, and Trippunithura.

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"We are accustomed to say in New England that few and fewer pigeons visit us every year. Our forests furnish no mast for them. So, it would seem, few and fewer thoughts visit each growing man from year to year, for the grove in our minds is laid waste,—sold to feed unnecessary fires of ambition, or sent to mill,—and there is scarcely a twig left for them to perch on. They no longer build nor breed with us. In some more genial season, perchance, a faint shadow flits across the landscape of the mind, cast by the wings of some thought in its vernal or autumnal migration, but, looking up, we are unable to detect the substance of the thought itself. Our winged thoughts are turned to poultry. They no longer soar, and they attain only to a Shanghai and Cochin-China grandeur. Those gra-a-ate thoughts, those gra-a-ate men you hear of!"

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