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
see origin at Afrikaner
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
Subsequently that excellent Afrikander, Mr. Van Busch, rejoins Brounckers' bright boy at Tweipans, with information that decides the date of Schenk Eybel's Feint from the East.
From The Dop Doctor by Dehan, Richard
He had prospered as a rogue of old in England, really his native country, though he called himself an Afrikander.
From The Dop Doctor by Dehan, Richard
Him she awakened by blowing a bugle which had lain at her feet.—He came out to her, and listened to the strange tale which she hastily repeated, with the usual unmoved countenance of the Afrikander.
From An I.D.B. in South Africa by Vescelius-Sheldon, Louise
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