Landdrost
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of Landdrost
C18: Afrikaans, from Dutch land country + drost sheriff, bailiff
Example Sentences
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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 may say that our little party at "Myrtle Grove" was a few weeks later augmented by the arrival of Vaal Piet Uys and Landdrost T. Kelly.
From My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War by P. Van Breda
Landdrost Schutte and Captain Shields quarrel over who shall have charge of the jail.
From A Woman's Part in a Revolution by Natalie Harris Hammond
I found the dispensary closed, the proprietor having departed with the English, and the Landdrost, fearing to get himself into trouble, was not inclined to open it.
From My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War by P. Van Breda
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