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kloof
[ kloof ]
noun
- (in South Africa) a deep glen; ravine.
kloof
/ kluːf /
noun
- a mountain pass or gorge in southern Africa
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Word History and Origins
Origin of kloof1
C18: from Afrikaans, from Middle Dutch clove a cleft; see cleave 1
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Example Sentences
The houses seemed to be tumbling over one another in a "kloof."
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Nor was there any in the carrying it out; for, as with the camp in the kloof, all were now eager to move away from this one.
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Most of the effects intended for removal had been got down on the second day, the waggons alone remaining in the kloof.
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A dense cloud of dust is rolling down the kloof, and through it can be seen a forest of bristling horns, a sea of rolling eyes.
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So they turned inland and rode towards that very kloof where years before Suzanne had discovered the shipwrecked boy.
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