kopje
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of kopje
1880–85; < Afrikaans, equivalent to kop kop + -je diminutive suffix
Example Sentences
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They are feeding on the buds of an acacia tree not far from the granite kopje where they sleep.
From Time Magazine Archive
They sit and socialize on the lower rocks of their high kopje, grooming one another with a sweet absorption, playing with their babies.
From Time Magazine Archive
He occupied Heerendorp, a ramshackle farmhouse under a kopje, and had cattle and horses, also a wife and grown-up sons and daughters.
From A Book of Ghosts by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
Nevertheless, the kopje once gained, the men rushed along the crest and entrenched themselves in a spot that looked as though it had been overtaken by a prairie fire.
From South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 3 (of 6) From the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899, to Lord Roberts's Advance into the Free State, 12th Feb. 1900 by Louis Creswicke
Up scrambled the Boers, streaming and bounding along the sides of the kopje like stampeded goats, and commencing to fire with all their might.
From South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 3 (of 6) From the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899, to Lord Roberts's Advance into the Free State, 12th Feb. 1900 by Louis Creswicke
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