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[SA] C. Van Heyningen Uys Krige 115: The kind of banjo, guitar, or concertina music that the ‘Capeys’ love.
at Capey, n.
[SA] C. Van Heyningen Uys Krige 94: They chatter to Luis about the house they have built [...] a house that even has a ‘kleinhuisie’.
at kleinhuisie, n.
[SA] C. Van Heyningen Uys Krige 114: Most Cape Town ‘Coloureds’ use such words as ‘pellie-blou’.
at pellie, n.
[SA] C. Van Heyningen Uys Krige 119: Koos [...] speaks with neither awe nor self-pity of his own coming death: he is going to ‘vrek,’ the same process that a dog or an ox goes through.
at vrek, v.
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