Cape Dutch

noun

1. Afrikaans.

Cape Dutch

noun

1. an obsolete name for Afrikaans
2. (in South Africa) a distinctive style of furniture or architecture

Word History and Origins

Origin of Cape Dutch¹

First recorded in 1820–30

Example Sentences

A relatively small operation, it has an intimate feel with two rustic, brilliant white Cape Dutch buildings — a tasting room and a restaurant — surrounded by 16 acres of vines.

From New York Times

The building's neoclassical columns and Cape Dutch additions serve as a reminder of the country's colonial past and some say there is now the chance to create something that better reflects South Africa's diversity.

From BBC

The emerging-artists show, “On the Cusp,” resided in a more strait-laced setting, a classic Cape Dutch manor house in the center of town, made available by Distell, a Stellenbosch-based liquor company that sponsored the section.

From New York Times

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

From The New Yorker

The village, Prince Albert, sometimes has the look of a sleepy frontier settlement out of the old American West, but it is known among travel connoisseurs for pristine examples of 19th-century Cape Dutch architecture, with their signature rounded gables, and for tasty figs and olives, and grazing sheep that are raised for mohair and the most tender lamb.

From New York Times