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Definition of Kaross
1. n. A native garment or rug of skin sewed together in the form of a square.
Definition of Kaross
1. Noun. A treated animal-skin cloak with the hair still left on. ¹
2. Noun. A blanket of treated animal-skin with the hair left on. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Kaross
1. an African garment [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kaross
Literary usage of Kaross
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Uncivilized Races of Men in All Countries of the World by John George Wood (1882)
"Finally, he rubs down the seam, and, when properly done, the two edges lie as
flat as if they were one single piece of skin. In the kaross before mentioned, ..."
2. The Standard Library of Natural History: Embracing Living Animals of Thw by Charles John Cornish (1908)
"... or kaross; women wear in addition two or more skin'aprons. They have elaborate
ornaments of strung teeth, and beads, and armlets of grass. ..."
3. Secwana Dictionary: Secwana-English and English-Secwana by John Tom Brown (1895)
"A double kaross of hartebeest skin, ma- sari, Int. ; white edging round a kaross,
... lappet o» the bottom of a kaross, moya ; the middle lappet of three, ..."
4. Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa by William John Burchell (1822)
"These aprons, which they distinguish into fore-kaross and hind- kaross, ...
The fore-kaross is much the smaller, and seldom reaches below the knees: it ..."
5. Gun and Camera in Southern Africa: A Year of Wanderings in Bechuanaland, the by Henry Anderson Bryden (1893)
"A good red-cat kaross is always worth in Bechuanaland from £4 to £5. There is a
general tradition that the skin of this handsome animal is a certain remedy ..."
6. The Popular Science Monthly (1891)
"No furrier can do better work than does the Kaffir kaross- ... One kaross of
thirty-six skins was sewed very neatly: ..."
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