kraal

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun a village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa; usually surrounded by a stockade
noun a pen for livestock in southern Africa

From colonial Dutch kraal, from Portuguese curral. Doublet of corral.

They had stopped at his chief's kraal. — With Buller in Natal, Or, a Born Leader, G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Finally, however, I came upon a kaffir kraal. — My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War, Ben J. (Ben Johannis) Viljoen
The man who looked at them knew they were native kraals. — The Dop Doctor, Richard Dehan

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