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coolie
For Western chic, this is the year of the coolie who came in from the cold.
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Much of what Graham and Dodd did so well was simply hard coolie labor.
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No one did more to promote the black coolie shade than Ms. Castaing.
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He threw himself passionately into the role of the coolie, even shaved the top of his head.
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During that time, he often did odd jobs as a coolie in his community.
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In 1914, the coolie trade was abolished and banned in Singapore.
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The rebels wandered in slowly, a dozen of them, rifles swinging from their shoulders like coolie poles.
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Women in traditional coolie hats balance wooden rods on their shoulders, a bamboo basket suspended from each end.
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Bopara is what you can call a mordern day coolie.
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- (ethnic slur) an offensive name for an unskilled Asian laborer
- Coolie (variously spelled Cooly, Kuli, Quli, Koelie etc.) is: * A historical term for manual labourers from Asia, particularly China and India, in the 19th century and early 20th century. ...
- Coolie is a 1983 Indian Bollywood film directed by Manmohan Desai. The film stars Amitabh Bachchan, Rishi Kapoor, Rati Agnihotri, Kader Khan, Suresh Oberoi and Puneet Issar. It is about a railway coolie.
- Coolie is a novel by Mulk Raj Anand first published in 1936. The novel reinforced Anand's position as one of India's leading English authors. The book is highly critical of British rule in India and India's caste system. ...
- An unskilled Asian worker, usually of Chinese or Indian descent; a labourer; a porter. Coolies were frequently transported to other countries in the 19th and early 20th centuries as indentured labourers; In Trinidad, West Indies, Guyana, and parts of Africa slang for a person of Indian descent ...
- (Coolies) The lowest paid unskilled laborers of, or from, China, India or other highly populated Asiatic areas.
- (coolies) slang for Vietnamese civilian workers.
- Any Asian subsistence laborer, a civilian worker; as derived from pidgin Chinese-English for hireling. See CHIGGIE BEAR, DAN CONG, HACK.
- Door-to-door salesman of East-Indian decent
