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- noun Plural form of
coolamon .
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Examples
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When at last we returned with our plastic coolamons duly filled, their contents were decanted briskly into saucepans and billy cans.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Large numbers of empty yoghurt pots were hastily thrown in a plastic bag as coolamons for fruit-gathering, and we all piled into the two trucks and set off.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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As the stew began to bubble on the glowing mulga, Mary detailed Ramona, Theo, Kemarre and I with yoghurt-pot coolamons to pick plums.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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River red gums also supplied the Aboriginal coolamons, carrying bowls carved out of the boles or crooked roots, and sometimes the bark.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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When at last we returned with our plastic coolamons duly filled, their contents were decanted briskly into saucepans and billy cans.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Large numbers of empty yoghurt pots were hastily thrown in a plastic bag as coolamons for fruit-gathering, and we all piled into the two trucks and set off.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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As the stew began to bubble on the glowing mulga, Mary detailed Ramona, Theo, Kemarre and I with yoghurt-pot coolamons to pick plums.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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River red gums also supplied the Aboriginal coolamons, carrying bowls carved out of the boles or crooked roots, and sometimes the bark.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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The gins and children soon abandoned their hiding-place and assembled on the bank, where they had their coolamons filled with rats.
Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills William Landsborough
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