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Oudtshoorn

American  
[ohts-hawrn] / ˈoʊtsˌhɔrn /

noun

  1. a city in the S Cape of Good Hope province, in the S Republic of South Africa.


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Seventy-two primary school pupils and 10 adults were trapped in a resort in the town of Oudtshoorn after a nearby river overflowed.

From BBC Sep. 27, 2023

In 1947, Great Britain's Queen Elizabeth helped start the present revival by visiting Oudtshoorn, praising feathers and publicly plucking an ostrich.

From Time Magazine Archive

He sleeps by day in a hotel room in Oudtshoorn, breakfasts at midnight in his big, untidy office, heaped high with bundles of ostrich feathers, and works while others sleep.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the sun-baked Little Karoo plateau around Oudtshoorn, ostrich capital of the world, farmers killed their birds by the thousands, stripped the rich dark meat from the carcasses for stew.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the Oudtshoorn, Stockenstroom, Uniondale, Piquetberg and other districts tobacco is grown.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" by Various

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