bamboo wife

== English == === Etymology === Calque from Chinese 竹夫人 (zhúfūrén). === Noun === bamboo wife (plural 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. ==== Synonyms ==== Dutch wife ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === bamboo wife on Wikipedia.Wikipedia