klipkrans, noun
- Origin:
- South African Dutch, DutchShow more South African Dutch, from Dutch klip rock, stone + krans see krantz.
obs.
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1786 G. Forster tr. of A. Sparrman’s Voy. to Cape of G.H. I. 258At a very small distance from the water, appears..a klip-krans..or a rocky hill flat on the top, and perpendicular on the side towards the sea.
1786 G. Forster tr. of A. Sparrman’s Voy. to Cape of G.H. II. 48He looked out for a klipkrans, (so they commonly call in this country a rocky place level and plain at the top, and having a perpendicular precipice on one side of it).
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