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
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)
With the government of the Colony once more in the hands of the British party, Lord Milner had been relieved of the acute and constant anxieties that marked his official relationship to the Afrikander Ministry.
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)
The head of the Afrikander Bond at this time in Cape Colony, and the leader of Dutch opinion, was Mr J.H.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" by Various
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