bamboo wife

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bamboo wife

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Calque from Chinese 竹夫人 (zhúfūrén).

noun bamboo wives

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.
Similar: Dutch wife

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@misc{bamboo_wife_2026,
  title = {bamboo wife},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/bamboo%20wife},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}