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kloof

[ kloof ]

noun

  1. (in South Africa) a deep glen; ravine.


kloof

/ kluːf /

noun

  1. a mountain pass or gorge in southern Africa


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Word History and Origins

Origin of kloof1

1725–35; < Afrikaans; akin to cleave 2

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Word History and Origins

Origin of kloof1

C18: from Afrikaans, from Middle Dutch clove a cleft; see cleave 1

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Example Sentences

The houses seemed to be tumbling over one another in a "kloof."

Nor was there any in the carrying it out; for, as with the camp in the kloof, all were now eager to move away from this one.

Most of the effects intended for removal had been got down on the second day, the waggons alone remaining in the kloof.

A dense cloud of dust is rolling down the kloof, and through it can be seen a forest of bristling horns, a sea of rolling eyes.

So they turned inland and rode towards that very kloof where years before Suzanne had discovered the shipwrecked boy.

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