Kaross

Quick meaning: Kaross is a noun meaning (South Africa) A treated animal-skin cloak or blanket with the hair still left on.

Meaning

(South Africa) A treated animal-skin cloak or blanket with the hair still left on.

Example Sentences

In South Africa, where the caracal abounds, its hide is made by the Kaffres into skin cloaks, known as karosses.

“Our bedroom had a sweeping view of the water and clean sheets and towels had been laid out for us on a kaross of jackal pelts.”

The wants of a native living with his tribe and cultivating mealies or Kafir corn are confined to a kaross (skin cloak) or some pieces of cotton cloth.

“For the first two years, of life a baby was carried in a carrier, lined with absorbent grass, inside her kaross, (a treated animal skin made into a cape...)”

Word Forms

• karosses

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include skin, caross, robe, posteen, bearskin, capote.

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