East India Company
noun
: any of several companies organized chiefly during the 17th and 18th centuries for carrying on trade with the East Indies
Word History
Etymology
East India, collective name applied loosely and vaguely to India, Indochina, and the Malay archipelago
First Known Use
1608, in the meaning defined above
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- bright turquoise green
- Bright's disease
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- bright-eyed
- bright-eyed and bushy-tailed
- bright-field
- bright-light district
- bright-line
- bright-line spectrum
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- brightly