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kloof|kluːf|
[a. Du. kloof (kloːf) cleft: see clove n.5]
In South Africa: A deep narrow valley; a ravine or gorge between mountains.
1731Medley Kolben's Cape G. Hope II. 18 The Lion is separated from the Table-Hill by a small Kloof, as the Dutch call it, i.e. a Cleft or Descent. 1775Masson in Phil. Trans. LXVI. 273 We ascended the mountains by an exceedingly steep rugged path, which the peasants call Hottentot Holland Kloof. 1834Pringle Afr. Sk. v. 209 Lofty hills..broken by kloofs, or subsidiary dales. 1849E. E. Napier Excurs. S. Afr. II. 20 On a nearer approach, dark glens and gloomy ‘kloofs’ are found to furrow the mountain sides.
attrib.1899Rider Haggard Swallow iv, Her face was rich in hue as a kloof lily. |