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kaross
Part of speech: NounA skin cloak made by the Kaffirs of S. Africa.
Usage examples "kaross":- Each of the boys also carried a large crescent- shaped powder- horn, with a pouch for bullets; and over the saddle of each was strapped the robe or kaross, differing only from their father's in that his was of the rarer leopard- skin, while theirs were a commoner sort, one of antelope, and the other of jackal- skin. - "Popular Adventure Tales", Mayne Reid.
- That night as I sat smoking my pipe under the flap lean- to attached to the wagon, laughing to myself over the adventure of " the Old Cow," falsely described as " worn out," and wondering whether Umbezi had got the honey out of his hair, the canvas was lifted, and a Kafir wrapped in a kaross crept in and squatted before me. - "Child of Storm", H. Rider Haggard.
- By degrees this thinned beneath the rays of the risen sun, and through it, looking gigantic in that light, Benita saw a savage wrapped in a kaross, who was walking up and down and yawning, a great spear in his hand. - "Benita, An African Romance", H. Rider Haggard.