单词 | bastard hottentot |
释义 | > as lemmasBastard Hottentot Bastard Hottentot n. (also with lower-case initial) South African (now historical) a member of a people of mixed Khoikhoi, white, and black African origin; cf. senses A. 12a, B. 9. ΚΠ 1785 G. Forster tr. A. Sparrman Voy. Cape Good Hope II. x. 32 A bastard Hottentot..had been wounded in the shoulder with a poisoned arrow. 1876 F. Boyle Savage Life 210 On the diamond-fields we knew very well, and respected, the Bastard Hottentots, though—or because—they retain little of their ancestors. 1949 Africa 19 188 The Griqua ancesters were..‘Bastard Hottentots’ (children of frontier Boers and Hottentot women) who established themselves in separate communities during the early eighteenth century. 2001 Gender & Society 15 822 The so-called colonial Hottentots or bastard Hottentots, who lived inside the colony. < as lemmas |
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