Coolie

Chamber's Twientieth Century Dictionary · 1908 · p. 24

Cooly , kōōl′i, n. an Indian or Chinese labourer who has emigrated under contract to a foreign land: a European's name for a hired native labourer in India and China. [Prob. Kuli , a tribe of Guzerat; or orig. Tamil, cf. kūli , hire.]