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romushas

romushas is the plural of romusha.

Meaning of romusha

Noun

romusha (plural romusha or romushas)

  1. A forced laborer, especially one of those made to work in the Dutch East Indies under Japanese occupation during the Second World War.
    • Javanese workers were known as romushas (the Japanese translation for the colonial term ‘coolie’) and put to work on Java, its neighbouring islands and across Southeast Asia.2017, Lizzie Oliver, “‘Like Pebbles Stuck in a Sieve’: Reading Romushas in the Second-Generation Photography of Southeast Asian Captivity”, in Journal of War & Culture Studies, volume 10, →DOI, page...

Questions about romushas

What is romushas the plural of?
Romushas is the plural of romusha.

Words near romushas in the dictionary

  1. Romulean
  2. Romulian
  3. Romulus
  4. Romuluses
  5. romusha
  6. romushas
  7. Romuva
  8. Romy
  9. Románico
  10. Romániço
  11. Românași

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