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Encyclopedia Britannica



KAROSS

This article appears in Volume V15, Page 682 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: JUN-KHA
KAROSS , a cloak made of sheepskin, or the hide .of other animals, with the
hair
  left on. It is properly confined to the coat of skin without sleeves worn by the Hottentots and
Bush
 -men of
South
  Africa. These karosses are now often replaced by a blanket, Their, chiefs wore karosses of the skin of the wild cat, leopard or caracal. The word is also loosely applied to the cloaks of leopard-skin worn by the chiefs and
principal
  men of the Kaffir tribes. Kaross is probably either a genuine Hottentot word, or else an
adaptation
  of the Dutch kuras (Portuguese couraca), a
cuirass
 . In a vocabulary dated 1673 karos is described as a " corrupt Dutch word."


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