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‖ rondavel S. Afr.|rɒnˈdɑːvɛl|
Also † rondabel, ronddawel.
[a. Afrikaans rondawel.]
A round tribal hut of primitive construction, usu. with a thatched, conical roof. Also transf., a similar simple building used esp. as a holiday cottage; also as an outbuilding on a farm, etc.
1891J. Widdicombe Fourteen Yrs. in Basutoland 84 Mr. Charles Bell had very kindly engaged a Mosuto..to build us a round hut, or rondavel, as the whites usually call it. 1900A. H. Keane Boer States p. xviii, Rondabel, ronddawel, a round hut..; is now an outhouse detached from the dwelling, and used as a kitchen. 1904A. Wilmot Life & Times Sir R. Southey iii. 69 At present the Land⁓drost lies in a ‘Rondavel’ of reeds and mud. 1910J. Buchan Prester John iii. 53 There were some twenty native huts, higher up the slope, which the Dutch call rondavels. 1924Chambers's Jrnl. Jan. 53/1 At the scene of operations rondavels have been constructed to accommodate the workers. 1936‘The Idler’ Rolling Home xxxi. 385 It consisted of a dozen rondavels grouped round a central thatched dining-room... A rondavel is a circular room built of brick or mud with a door and windows and is roofed with stout thatch. 1951R. Campbell Light on Dark Horse ii. 51 Even our Governor-Generals sleep, in the hot weather, in thatched rondavels walled with a mixture of cow-dung and mud. 1958M. Spark Go-Away Bird 102 She had used to squat with old Makata..outside his large rondavel. 1965Spectator 8 Jan. 35/3, I slept in one of the rondavels..vacated for me for the occasion. There are twenty of these—tin huts twenty feet in diameter and partitioned to form two tiny semi⁓circular rooms. 1973G. Durrell Beasts in my Belfry vi. 121 The [bears'] dens, which were scattered among the bramble bushes that filled the enclosure, were beehive⁓like rondavels of stone covered with earth and turf. 1976Vogue Jan. 114/3 Antigua..the Anchorage Hotel..accommodation units, ranging from rondavels to air⁓conditioned rooms with patios. |