coolamon
[ koo-luh-mon, -muhn ]
noun
a basinlike dish made from wood or bark by Aboriginal inhabitants of Australia.
Origin of coolamon
1First recorded in 1840–50, coolamon is from the Kamilaroi word gulaman
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How to use coolamon in a sentence
When the siblings returned to their mother’s homeland as teenagers, their extended family gave Garstone’s aunt, Anne Rivers, a coolamon, a type of shallow dish, decorated with two bottle trees, or boabs.
Carvings on Australia’s boab trees reveal a generation’s lost history | Freda Kreier | November 18, 2022 | Science News
British Dictionary definitions for coolamon
coolamon
/ (ˈkuːləmɒn) /
noun
Australian a shallow dish of wood or bark, used for carrying water
Origin of coolamon
1C19: from a native Australian language
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