单词 | kombaars |
释义 | kombaarsn. South African. A blanket, coverlet, or rug. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > household linen > bedclothes > [noun] > blanket whittlec900 langel1324 blanket1346 caddow1579 cad1581 rug1591 cambal1599 cumbly1696 bed-blanket1701 kombaars1812 mackinaw blanket1822 blankie1921 1812 W. J. Burchell Jrnl. 1 May in Trav. Interior S. Afr. (1824) II. 175 This kombaars, or coverlet, is a genuine South-African manufacture, being nothing more than a Hottentot karóss of large dimensions. 1840 B. Shaw Memorials S. Afr. i. 28 His kombaars tied with leathern strings. 1850 R. Gordon-Cumming Five Years Hunter's Life S. Afr. I. ix. 186 In the evening I took my pillow and ‘komberse’, or skin blanket, to the margin of a neighbouring vley. 1913 C. Pettman Africanderisms 274 Komberse, a rug, blanket; sometimes a kaross is so styled. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1812 |
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