Afrikander
Americannoun
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one of a breed of red beef cattle, raised originally in southern Africa, well adapted to high temperatures.
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Archaic. Afrikaner.
noun
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a breed of humpbacked beef cattle originally raised in southern Africa
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a southern African breed of fat-tailed sheep
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a former name for an Afrikaner
Etymology
Origin of Afrikander
Example Sentences
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South Africans prefer their own Afrikander folk songs like Sarie Marais.
From Time Magazine Archive
Patriotic appeals from London, urging South Africa to follow the Mother Country off gold, have fallen on deaf Afrikander ears.
From Time Magazine Archive
This ranch belonged to an English Afrikander friend of his, and he had every hope that there his cattle—a goodly herd—and some hundreds of goats might be safe.
From From Veldt Camp Fires by Bryden, H.A.
A very careful and reliable calculation showed that, of an aggregate of 82,304 votes polled, 44,403 were cast for Progressive, and 37,901 for Afrikander candidates.
From Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902 by Worsfold, W. Basil (William Basil)
Brand, President, 28, 275; discourages the Afrikander Bond, 55; the r�le played by him in 1881, 153.
From Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902 by Worsfold, W. Basil (William Basil)
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