Cape Dutch


noun

Origin of Cape Dutch

1
First recorded in 1820–30

Words Nearby Cape Dutch

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How to use Cape Dutch in a sentence

  • They were all Cape Dutch, no Transvaalers being found in their ranks.

  • This is exactly what the Cape Dutch did when some of them rose in rebellion.

    In the Shadow of Death | P. H. Kritzinger and R. D. McDonald
  • The members who subscribed their names to it, and who represented the feeling of the Cape Dutch, were called disloyal.

    In the Shadow of Death | P. H. Kritzinger and R. D. McDonald
  • This, then, was the attitude of the Cape Dutch before the declaration of war: emphatic disapproval of any war policy.

    In the Shadow of Death | P. H. Kritzinger and R. D. McDonald
  • These colonial settlers constituted another link in the chain which bound the Cape Dutch to the Boers.

    In the Shadow of Death | P. H. Kritzinger and R. D. McDonald

British Dictionary definitions for Cape Dutch

Cape Dutch

noun
  1. an obsolete name for Afrikaans

  2. (in South Africa) a distinctive style of furniture or architecture

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