Fingo

British  

/ ˈfɪŋɡəʊ /

noun

1. a member of a Xhosa-speaking people settled in southern Africa in the Ciskei and Transkei: originally refugees from the Zulu wars of conquest

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Example Sentences

On its green banks reclined a crowd of Fingo warriors, in their war attire of plumes, assegais, shields of bullock-hide, and their karosses draped gracefully round them.

From The Cape and the Kaffirs A Diary of Five Years' Residence in Kaffirland by Ward, Harriet

He glared first at Roden, then at the stalwart Fingo, as though he had some thoughts of assaulting one or both of them.

From A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance by Mitford, Bertram

The Fingo hesitated for a moment or two, and then accepted the offer.

From An I.D.B. in South Africa by Vescelius-Sheldon, Louise

And in the rear marched the Fingo contingent, howling their war-song and looking intensely valiant now that the danger was over.

From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Mitford, Bertram

Now, beacons blazed, the silent heralds of glad tidings; the very Fingo kraals adjacent to the town sent forth shouts, and torches flitted from hut to hut.

From The Cape and the Kaffirs A Diary of Five Years' Residence in Kaffirland by Ward, Harriet