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Definition of Chino
1. Noun. Trousers made with chino cloth.
2. Noun. A coarse twilled cotton fabric frequently used for uniforms.
Definition of Chino
1. Noun. A coarse cotton fabric commonly used to make trousers and uniforms. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Chino
1. a strong fabric [n -NOS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chino
Literary usage of Chino
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Cyclopædic Dictionary of the Mang'anja Language Spoken in British Central by David Clement Ruffelle Scott (1892)
"chino-chino, so, ' just as you are ' ; ndi-na-mjH'zii iye chino~c/iino, I found
him without anything, bow or arrow, just as I am just now. ..."
2. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (1903)
"This duty devolved upon Lockwood and chino Zavalla. Hicks had from the very first
ordered that the Spaniard should accompany the superintendent upon this ..."
3. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1858)
"Indian father and negro mother chino. White father and mulatto mother ...
Negro father and mestizo mother Mulatto-oscura, Negro father and chino mother ..."
4. Eagle Pass; Or, Life on the Border by Cora Montgomery (1852)
"chino was a full-blooded, native-born citizen of Mexico, endowed, like his human
peon brothers, with the Mexican virtues of patience, endurance, ..."
5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"... and worldly, and yet love hie Guidos, and be comforted in his downfall by the
opportune arrival of a Domini- chino. But neither his love of art, ..."
6. Chronicles of the Builders of the Commonwealth: Historical Character Study by Hubert Howe Bancroft (1892)
"... chino SUGAR.MILLS—MRS GIRD—PHYSIQUE AND CHARACTERISTICS—OPINIONS—SUMMARY.
SINCE the time when a couple of railroad cars would have contained the entire ..."
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