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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Patriotic appeals from London, urging South Africa to follow the Mother Country off gold, have fallen on deaf Afrikander ears.
From Time Magazine Archive
South Africans prefer their own Afrikander folk songs like Sarie Marais.
From Time Magazine Archive
They form the Afrikander nationality, and call themselves Afrikanders.
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)
We will call them X., Y. and Z. Now X. is an American, Y. is an Englishman, whose peach-like countenance yet bears the newly healed scar of a bullet wound, and Z. is an Afrikander.
From Great Britain at War by Farnol, Jeffery
De Wet, Piet, protests against the treatment of the agents of the Peace Committee, 427; desires the Afrikander leaders to associate themselves with the Burgher Peace Committee, 474.
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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