Cape Dutch
Americannoun
noun
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an obsolete name for Afrikaans
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(in South Africa) a distinctive style of furniture or architecture
Etymology
Origin of Cape Dutch
First recorded in 1820–30
Example Sentences
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Back lives at Fairview, in a Cape Dutch house built on a hilltop in 1693.
From The New Yorker ● May 6, 2019
The houses, a mix of Cape Dutch and Georgian architecture, run alongside steep cobbled roads.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2018
Several are definitely worth popping into, including the Koopmans-de Wet House, an 18th-century house museum that’s a mixture of Cape Dutch and Georgian architecture filled with antiques.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 13, 2015
On the edge of town, the Rupert Museum may be only a decade old, but it was designed in the old Cape Dutch style to blend nicely into the local aesthetic.
From Forbes ● Dec. 4, 2014
Located in the lovely old Cape Dutch town of Paarl, Victor Verster is thirty-five miles northeast of Cape Town in the province’s wine-growing region.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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