Basuto
Americannoun
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Basutos,
plural
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Basuto
plural
noun
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However, when Boers attacked Basuto settlements, Moshoeshoe went to war.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
Munro went on to learn German in Stuttgart, studied a business course in London and served as a cavalryman in the Basuto War in southern Africa.
From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2019
This training aircraft is named Basuto after a Spitfire donated by Lesotho The biggest problem has been getting people to engage with the issue.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2013
Although I didn't realise it at the time, each story is retold in a style that's in keeping with its source country, whether it's Sudanese, Polynesian, Japanese or Basuto.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 4, 2011
When British Bechuanaland was swept and the pestilence reached the herds of the Basuto, it was felt that the danger was indeed at the door of every owner of cattle in South Africa.
From Between Sun and Sand A Tale of an African Desert by W. C. (William Charles) Scully
I knew what misery I should bring upon the country by leaving the Basutos to ravage the Boer places, and therefore I have agreed to the proposal of Mr. J. P. Hoffman.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
If they have remained quiet, it has been owing to my persuasions and my promises that they might have good hope of justice—Your Excellency having consented to act as arbitrator between the Boers and Basutos.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
Zulus, Swazis, Pondos, Basutos, we die like brothers.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 21, 2017
Not all South Africans were as explicit as the Basutos.
From Time Magazine Archive
Unfortunately Colonel Harrison did not insist that the party should wait until the Basutos arrived, and they proceeded another seven miles, and then halted in an isolated kraal in a valley.
From The Young Colonists A Story of the Zulu and Boer Wars by G.A. Henty
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