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coolie hats

coolie hats is the plural of coolie hat.

Meaning of coolie hat

Noun

coolie hat (plural coolie hats)

  1. (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

Questions about coolie hats

What is coolie hats the plural of?
Coolie hats is the plural of coolie hat.

Words near coolie hats in the dictionary

  1. Coolidgean
  2. Coolidgian
  3. coolie
  4. Coolie Christmas
  5. coolie hat
  6. coolie hats
  7. coolie orange
  8. coolie oranges
  9. coolieism
  10. coolies
  11. Coolin

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