Cape Dutch

American  

noun

1. Afrikaans.

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Cape Dutch British  

noun

1. an obsolete name for Afrikaans

2. (in South Africa) a distinctive style of furniture or architecture

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Etymology

Origin of Cape Dutch

First recorded in 1820–30

Example Sentences

Back lives at Fairview, in a Cape Dutch house built on a hilltop in 1693.

From The New Yorker • May 6, 2019

The spine of Church Street is graced with more than a dozen Cape Dutch buildings, some draped in bougainvillea and adorned with tropical plants — fynbos, protea or cactus flowers.

From New York Times • Apr. 11, 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

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