coolie hat
coolie hat noun: synonym of Asian conical hat.
Noun
coolie hat (plural coolie hats)
- 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
- Synonyms:
- Asian conical hat
Synonyms of coolie hat
Forms of coolie hat
| plural | coolie hats |
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Origin of coolie hat
From coolie + hat.
Questions about coolie hat
- What does coolie hat mean?
- Coolie hat means synonym of Asian conical hat.
- What part of speech is coolie hat?
- Coolie hat is a noun.
- What is the plural of coolie hat?
- The plural of coolie hat is coolie hats.
Words near coolie hat in the dictionary
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