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Definition of Coolgardie safe in English: Coolgardie safenounkuːlˌɡɑːdi ˈseɪf Australian A box or cupboard for storing food, cooled by strips of wetted fabric. Example sentencesExamples - There have been recent efforts to revive the use of Coolgardie safes in order to reduce the carbon footprint of our high energy input lifestyle.
- Everyone knows that food storage was a problem for Aborigines and indeed for the colonists until the invention of the Coolgardie Safe and eventually the ice chest.
- Their collections of bark huts, harvesting machines, Coolgardie safes, mining implements, and kitchen utensils conveyed, at least to modern eyes, a sense of the hardship and simplicity of pioneer life.
- Australia was the source of the first refrigeration system, the Coolgardie safe.
- One invention, the Coolgardie safe, depended on the evaporation of water from the surface of hessian, which was fixed to the frame of a kitchen cupboard.
Origin 1920s: named after Coolgardie, a town in Western Australia. |