Landdrost
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of Landdrost
C18: Afrikaans, from Dutch land country + drost sheriff, bailiff
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First, there was the Landdrosts' Court, from which an appeal lay to a court consisting of the Landdrost and six councillors elected by the public.
From Cetywayo and his White Neighbours Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal by Henry Rider Haggard
I then went into the house with the Landdrost, and spent a good deal of time in writing with him.
From Three Years' War by Christiaan Rudolf De Wet
He is dead now, poor man! but he was a regular type of a Landdrost.
From The Boer in Peace and War by Arthur M. Mann
I have one particular Landdrost in my mind as I write.
From The Boer in Peace and War by Arthur M. Mann
The Landdrost, or chief official of the ward, took the chair.
From Origin of the Anglo-Boer War Revealed (2nd ed.) The Conspiracy of the 19th Century Unmasked by C. H. Thomas
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