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1. coolie, n. View full entry 1622
...In India and (later also) China: a hired labourer (esp. one employed by a European); a porter (now esp. in a railway station). Hence also: an Asian labourer working abroad (now chiefly...
2. khaki, adj. and n. View full entry 1857
...Dust-coloured; dull brownish yellow, drab....
3. panga, n.2 View full entry 1877
...Any of several edible freshwater catfishes of the Asian genus Pangasius (family Pangasiidae), native to the Mekong basin and extensively farmed there and elsewhere; esp. the...
