bamboo wives

A form of bamboo wife — In East Asia and Southeast Asia, a hollow bamboo bolster roughly the size of a human body, embraced by a person while sleeping during hot weather because its open structure exposes the body to cooling air flow.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of bamboo wife
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