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impala|ɪmˈpɑːlə, -ˈpælə|
Also impalla, mpala.
= pallah.
1875W. H. Drummond Large Game & Nat. Hist. S. & S.-E. Afr. vii. 330 The roibok or impalla..is about the size of a small reed-buck doe, though more slenderly made. Ibid., These impalla..could easily distance any dog I possessed. 1886W. M. Kerr Far Interior I. ii. 29 It was here [sc. Boatlanama] that I shot my first antelope—a fine impala (æpyceros Melampus), with a good head. 1888P. Gillmore Days & Nights by Desert xvii. 136 (caption) The Mpala Antelope (æpyceros Melampus). 1896[see pallah]. 1907J. P. Fitzpatrick Jock of Bushveld 302 We sat like statues as the impala walked out from its stall between Teddy's knees. 1931Times Lit. Suppl. 3 Dec. 983/4 Graceful photographs of impalla, eland, and other antelope. 1947J. Stevenson-Hamilton Wild Life S. Afr. xiii. 87 The impala (æpyceros melampus)—Discovered by..Lichtenstein more than a hundred years ago, and variously termed impala, pallah, and rooibok, this antelope may claim to be one of the most beautiful and graceful members of the existing African fauna. 1965A. Nicol Truly Married Woman 44 It was, after all, only a red-buck, an impalla, that they were afraid of. 1971L. H. Matthews Life of Mammals II. xiv. 394 Impala in East Africa do not move far from their restricted home range. |