from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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).
[1913 Webster]
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.]