| 单词 | kaffirland |
| 释义 | > as lemmasKaffirland Kaffirland n. [originally after Swedish †Cafferland (1783 in the source translated in quot. 1785, or earlier)] now historical any or all of the territories on the eastern coast of southern Africa inhabited by Nguni peoples, esp. those inhabited by Xhosas. ΚΠ 1785 G. Forster tr. A. Sparrman Voy. Cape Good Hope II. xiv. 146 These rivers..probably run all together through the country called Caffer-land. 1821 E. Blount Notes on Cape Good Hope 137 A poet of great respectability..was ready to invoke the muse of Kaffer-land. 1853 Househ. Words 11 June 338/1 Let us..see what the noble savage does in Zulu Kaffirland. 1989 J. B. Peires Dead will Arise p. xii It was considered perfectly correct, even by liberal whites, to use the terms ‘Kaffir’ and ‘Kaffir-land’ for ‘Xhosa’ and ‘Xhosaland’. < as lemmas |
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