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
Then I go to look for Basuto people, and tell them ’bout white men.”
From Hair-Breadth Escapes The Adventures of Three Boys in South Africa by H.C. Adams
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
In the 1830s the Dutch farmers in South Africa decided they would rather live among Zulus and Basutos than live under the thumbs of greedy English traders.
From Time Magazine Archive
His stronghold was taken after very severe fighting by a colonial force, but, their defeat notwithstanding, the Basutos remained in a restless and aggressive condition for several years.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" by Various
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