vlein.
/fleɪ/, /vlʌɪ/, U.S. /fleɪ/, /vleɪ/ 1. In South Africa: A shallow pool of water; a piece of low-lying ground covered with water during the rainy season.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [noun]
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the world > the earth > water > lake > pool > [noun]
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1793 C. R. Hopson tr. C. P. Thunberg Trav. II. p. xii A valley is nothing more than a rivulet, which is sometimes over-grown with rushes, and is broad in some places, and narrow in others.
1801 Truter & Somerville in G. M. Theal Rec. Cape Colony (1899) IV. 369 We afterwards passed two other vleis or ponds about two hours distant one from another.
1849 E. E. Napier Excursions Southern Afr. II. 179 The Hottentots look anxiously around for the well known ‘vlei’.
1850 R. Gordon-Cumming Five Years Hunter's Life S. Afr. I. v. 97 I came full in view of the vley or pool of water beside which I had been directed to encamp.
1863 W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting vi. 226 We found the vley, where we fully expected water, dried up.
1899 H. R. Haggard Swallow viii A large vlei, or pan, where were many ducks and also some antelope.
2. U.S. regional. A swamp.
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1880 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 119 432 To the same settlers [the Du.] are due the geographical appellations of kill for stream,..and vly or vlaie for swamp, so frequently met with in the Catskills.
1889 E. L. Bynner Begum's Daughter i Up over the grassy edge of the basin which formed the vly..the children came bounding pell-mell.
1904 R. W. Chambers in Harper's Mag. May 933/1 Have you reason to believe that an attempt has been made to fire the Owl Vlaie?
3. vlei lourie n. (also vlei loerie) one of several species of coucal of the genus Centropus, esp. C. superciliosus, found in southern Africa.
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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Cuculiformes (cuckoos, etc.) > [noun] > family Cuculidae > member of genus Centropus (coucal) > miscellaneous members of
vlei lourie1864
crow-pheasant1870
1864 J. T. Baines Explor. S.-W. Afr. xv. 391 I shot one of the loosely-feathered birds called in the colony Vlei Lories, or Reed Hawks.
1908 East London Daily Dispatch (S. Afr.) 4 Dec. 4 The vlei-lourie, perhaps better known hereabouts as the ‘rain-bird’, the natives regarding it as a weather prophet.]
1936 E. L. Gill First Guide S. Afr. Birds 108 Burchell's Coucal, Vlei Lourie (Loerie).
1973 Weekend Post (Port Elizabeth) 28 Apr. 4 Some are just fascinating in their own right, like the vlei louries..and the Diederick cuckoo.
1978 G. R. McLachlan & R. Liversidge Roberts's Birds S. Afr. (ed. 4) 253 White~browed Coucal. Vleiloerie. Centropus superciliosus.
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