kaparrangkaparringn.
/kəˈpɑːrəŋ/, /kəˈpɑːrɪŋ/, U.S. /kəˈpɛrəŋ/, /kəˈpɛrɪŋ/, South African English /kəˈpʌrəŋ/, /kəˈpʌrɪŋ/ South African.
A wooden sandal worn by the Cape Malays.
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1867 M. Kollisch Mussulman Population Cape Good Hope 23 Both sexes in some instances carefully ignoring the use of shoes, rather preferring clogs, called kaparrans (which is a small piece of wood with two slips joined underneath, and a wooden knob on the upper side;..the knob is simply placed between the first two toes).
1870 Cape Monthly Mag. Aug. 109 A Malay beauty..clatters upon ‘caparrans’ (a species of wooden buskin).
1911 State Dec. 596 The old coloured woman walking carefully in kaproens.
1953 Cape Argus 28 Feb. (Mag.) 3/6 Malays, with ‘Kapparings’ on their feet,..were our fish vendors.
1972 I. D. Du Plessis Cape Malays (ed. 3) iii. 33 Kaparrings (probably from the Javanese gamparan: wooden sandals with a knot to push between the big and second toes) are still in use in the Mosques.
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