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单词 coolamon
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coolamonn.

Brit. /ˈkuːləmən/, U.S. /ˈkuləmən/, Australian English /ˈkuːləmən/
Forms: 1800s coolaman, 1800s coolamen (plural), 1800s coolamin, 1800s cooleman, 1800s coolieman, 1800s cooliman, 1800s coulamon, 1800s kooliman, 1900s– coolamon, 1900s– coolimon.
Origin: A borrowing from Kamilaroi. Etymon: Kamilaroi gulaman.
Etymology: < Kamilaroi (New South Wales) gulaman.
Australian.
A shallow basin-shaped container made of wood or bark, used esp. for holding water or other liquids.
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1846 Sydney Morning Herald 4 Feb. 2/7 A large ‘coulamon’ receives the matter thus extracted by the heat.
1847 F. W. L. Leichhardt Jrnl. Overland Exped. Austral. 269 Three Koolimans (vessels of stringy bark) were full of honey water.
1881 A. C. Grant Bush-life in Queensland (1882) xxxiii. 337 A few broken gourds, a broken spear or two, and a cracked coolaman, were to be seen here and there.
1929 K. S. Prichard Coonardoo 92 Coonardoo set her boy in the coolamon she had scooped with sharp stones from the elbow of a river gum.
1963 A. Lubbock Austral. Roundabout 130 ‘How much this one?’ I asked, pointing to a small coolamon dish.
1996 D. Pilkington Rabbit-proof Fence iv. 25 The flowers from the desert oak, a type of grevillea, were picked and soaked in coolamons of water to make a sweet drink like cordial or lolly water.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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