coolie hat en · NOUN
Etymology
From coolie + hat.
Meanings
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(offensive) Synonym of Asian conical hat.
A book entitled Emerging Indonesia has on its cover photographs of a sunrise over palm trees, bent women in coolie hats transplanting rice, a wooden bull burning at a Balinese cremation, and a liquid nitrogen plant belching black smoke into a clear, undefiled tropical sky.
1996, Clifford Geertz, After the Fact: Two Countries, Four Decades, One Anthropologist, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 141:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| coolie hats | Number=Plur | lexicographic |