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rusbank S. Afr.|ˈrøsbaŋk|
Also rus-bank, rustbank, etc. pl. rusbanks, rusbanke, rust banken.
[Afrikaans, f. rus(t) rest + bank bench.]
A wooden settle or couch, usu. with a seat of woven leather thongs or riempies. Also attrib.
1880J. Nixon Among Boers 216 Hans was seated on the ‘rustbank’, smoking a short wooden pipe. 1902W. Dower Early Annals of Kokstad 25 The few very rough seats and the rust banken..were occupied by the men, the women sat on the floor. 1910D. Fairbridge That which hath Been xxiii. 277 The baas and huisvrouw..came out on their stoeps and sank into the capacious chairs and rust-banks. 1935P. Smith Platkops Children 76 After that was a long white house with a big stoep an' rus'-banks at each end. 1939S. Cloete Watch for Dawn 29 How alike all these Boer houses were. Each had the same rough, home-made riempie-seated rus-banks. 1947Cape Times 5 Feb. 14 The farm-house has a huge dining-room with a massive centre table and, along one wall, the district's longest rustbank. 1965M. G. Atmore Cape Furniture 77 At all times the rustbank has been a ‘multiple chair’ in which the form was copied from the single chair of the time. 1971Evening Post (Port Elizabeth) 8 May 20 The Furniture: Round Hand-made Stinkwood and Yellowwood Table on Pedestal Leg: three Yellowwood and Stinkwood Rusbanke. 1971Daily Dispatch (East London) 8 Sept. 18 Old Rusbank-type Lounge Suite. 1972Grocott's Mail (Grahamstown) 22 Feb. 1 Rusbank with riempie seat. |