Also campong. [Malay kampong, kampung inclosure: see COMPOUND sb.2] A Malay village.
1844. Brooke, Jrnl., in R. Mundy, Narrative Borneo (1848), I. 371. His campong was at Singi.
1875. J. Thomson, Straits Malacca, 18. There are Malay campongs (villages) scattered over the island.
1900. H. Clifford, in Blackw. Mag., March, 401. The rebel chiefs … are hustled out of the kampongs as though they carried some dreaded infection.
