Transvaal
['trænzvɑ:l;trænz'vɑ:l]
Definition
(noun.) a province of northeastern South Africa originally inhabited by Africans who spoke Bantu; colonized by the Boers.
Checker: Uriah--From WordNet
Examples
- There he did very well, but something went wrong (as it always does to a nomad), so he went to the Transvaal, and ran a panorama called 'Paradise Lost' in the Kaffir kraals. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- McArthur and Forrest perfected the process for commercial application, and it is now extensively used in the Transvaal and elsewhere. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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