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Hoolee

Hoolee is the obsolete form of Holi.

Meaning of Holi

Proper noun

Holi (plural Holis)

  1. A Hindu festival, held in the spring, during which people throw coloured powders at each other during noisy street celebrations.
    • At the Hoolie or Spring Festival, which happened in March, the Sepoys came round in procession, and exhibited anautch for our amusement in front of our bungalow, and a sort of play, the performers enacting the part of wild beasts.1830, Anne Katharine Curteis Elwood, Narrative of a Journey Overland from England, page 229

Questions about Hoolee

What is Hoolee the obsolete form of?
Hoolee is the obsolete form of Holi.

Words near Hoolee in the dictionary

  1. hooky-playing
  2. hool
  3. hoolaulea
  4. hoolauleas
  5. Hoole
  6. Hoolee
  7. Hooles
  8. hooley
  9. hooley-ann
  10. hooley-anns
  11. hooleys

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Hoolee (page history and authors); Holi (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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