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Cape Dutch

noun



Cape Dutch

noun

  1. an obsolete name for Afrikaans
  2. (in South Africa) a distinctive style of furniture or architecture


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Cape Dutch1

First recorded in 1820–30

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Example Sentences

They were all Cape Dutch, no Transvaalers being found in their ranks.

This is exactly what the Cape Dutch did when some of them rose in rebellion.

The members who subscribed their names to it, and who represented the feeling of the Cape Dutch, were called disloyal.

This, then, was the attitude of the Cape Dutch before the declaration of war: emphatic disapproval of any war policy.

These colonial settlers constituted another link in the chain which bound the Cape Dutch to the Boers.

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