dorpn.

1579 G. Gates Def. Militarie Profession 32 He the next forenoone dislodged them of the first scoute, & so them of Leiden Dam, and of Leiden Dorp.]

1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 12 Where dorps and cottages earst stood.

1596 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent (rev. ed.) 418 By Thorpe, or Dorpe, [is meant by the Saxons] a village, yet vsed in the lower Germaine.

1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 106 Betuene dorpe and dorpe, and toune and toune.

1609 T. Dekker Guls Horne-bk. sig. B3^v Taylors..their Hall that now is larger then some Dorpes among the Netherlands.

1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine i. vii. 18 Perizzites. By interpretation Villagers, as dwelling in dorps and Hamlets, not walled towns.

1687 J. Dryden Hind & Panther iii. 107 No neighb'ring Dorp, no lodging to be found.

1835 A. Steedman Wanderings S. Afr. I. 103 Beaufort, therefore, generally presents a scene of activity, arising from the number of farmers, who on various accounts have frequent occasion to visit the Dorp.

1852 C. Barter Dorp & Veld iv. 26 Maritzburg..an English town rising out of the ruins of a Dutch dorp or village.

1902 Daily Chron. 23 Apr. 7/3 The most remote ‘dorp’ has not been too far placed beyond the reach of the fertilising stream.

1902 J. H. M. Abbott Tommy Cornstalk 13 The dorp represented the Bush township.

1920 Contemp. Rev. Feb. 197 In the dorps and the backveld, society, business, religion, and politics are closely interwoven.

1934 R. Campbell Broken Rec. vii. 162 The radios of God have always spoken out of dorps like Medina and Nazareth.

1954 D. D'Ewes Mydorp ii. 18 Uncle Robert and Aunt Kate..had left Mydorp..to settle themselves in a dorp down the river.