blesbok

American  

[bles-bok] / ˈblɛsˌbɒk /

noun

• blesboks,
  plural
• blesbok
  plural

1. a large antelope, Damaliscus albifrons, of southern Africa, having a blaze on the face.

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blesbok British  

/ ˈblɛsˌbʌk /

noun

1. an antelope, Damaliscus dorcas (or albifrons ), of southern Africa. The coat is a deep reddish-brown with a white blaze between the eyes; the horns are lyre-shaped

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• blesbok
  plural
• blesboks
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of blesbok

1815–25; < Afrikaans, equivalent to Dutch bles blaze ² + bok buck ¹

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Example Sentences

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Upon seeing a herd of blesbok, he stopped the vehicle and said, “Pffttt,” in the animals’ direction.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 20, 2016

Game was abundant here, but though they could have shot eland, koodoo, blesbok, gemsbok, quagga, hartebeeste, zebra, and gnu, they had not seen elephant or giraffe, and these latter were in the boys’ minds continually.

From Off to the Wilds Being the Adventures of Two Brothers by Henri Théophile Hildibrand

He wished he had never set eyes upon a blesbok.

From The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa by Mayne Reid

They had arrived in the “zuur-veldt,” the country of the sour grass—the favourite home of the blesbok and bontebok.

From The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa by Mayne Reid

Before we started next morning, a huge herd of blesbok suddenly appeared on the scene, wildly galloping about in every direction, being continually brought up by the barbed wire fences of the farms.

From The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland by Cecil Francis Romer

Where the saline incrustations did not cover the ground, there grew a short, sour herbage, browsed upon by blesboks, wilde beests, and several other species of antelopes.

From The Giraffe Hunters by Mayne Reid

Of course they did not commence crouching, until they had tried how near the blesboks would allow them to come without cover.

From The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa by Mayne Reid

The springboks, when alarmed, take to flight and scatter off in any direction, whereas the bonteboks and blesboks invariably run against the wind, bearing their noses close along the ground, like hounds upon a trail!

From The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa by Mayne Reid

It was now plain to all that the blesboks fed up wind; and, therefore, the stand-men should have headed them instead of the drivers.

From The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa by Mayne Reid

Mr. Gumming thus describes an innumerable herd of blesboks which he encountered in the plains of Africa.

From Forest and Frontiers Or, Adventures Among the Indians by Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming

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