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单词 knobnose kaffirs
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knobnose kaffirs
Designating the Tsonga people of Southern Africa. Chiefly in knobnose kaffirs.Generally regarded as offensive.The epithet apparently arises from the formerly customary practice amongst the Tsonga of wearing a design of rounded lumps of raised scar tissue along the nose. Cf. button-scar n. at button n. Compounds 2a.
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Kaffir1588
Zulu1824
Mantatee1833
Basotho1835
Mosothoa1838
knobnose1839
Manganja1859
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > nose > [noun] > types of nose > person having
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knobnose1839
1839 Standard 25 Nov. All were massacred by the Malorika or Knopneus (Knobnose) Caffres.
1839 Bradford Observer 28 Nov. One party was entirely massacred by the knob nose Caffres.
1943 D. Reitz No Outspan iv. 59 We went up along the Sami river to Sibasa's country and then to the chief of the knob-nose kaffirs.
1974 A. P. Cartwright By Waters Letaba 20 Joao Albasini, native commissioner of the eastern district, chieftain of the ‘Knobnose Kaffirs’, as the Mashangana were nicknamed by the Boers, offered refuge to all in his fortress-like trading post.
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