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Coolie Christmas en · PROPN

Meanings

  1. (South-Africa, dated, offensive) Either of two festivals associated with Indians (in the sense of pre-partition, colonial India). ▸ Muharram
    • This is "Coolie Christmas," as it is popularly called here. Natal has over sixty thousand immigrants from India, and if we can believe our ears, it would seem that a good share of them have been beating tom-toms day and night for the last two weeks. 1902, Rev. Frederick B. Bridgman, “Durban — Its Fakirs and Its Christians”, in The Missionary Herald at Home and Abroad, volume 98, page 348:
  2. (South-Africa, dated, offensive) Either of two festivals associated with Indians (in the sense of pre-partition, colonial India). ▸ Diwali