Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The Dutch colonial name of a South African antelope, Hippotragus (or Ægoceros) leucopæus, given on account of its bluish appearance, caused by the dark hide showing through light hair.
- noun A small South African antelope with very short straight horns and heavy hind quarters. Also spelled
blaubok .
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It was a blauwbok, a superb animal of a pale-bluish color shading upon the gray, but with the belly and the inside of the legs as white as the driven snow.
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Among the various kinds of antelopes which inhabit South Africa, the blauwbok, or blue buck, called by Mr. Cumming, the blue antelope, is one of the most remarkable.
Forest & Frontiers 1867
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A name given by the Dutch settlers to a large Antelope (A. leucophæa) in South Africa for the effect produced by the animal's black hide showing through its ashy-grey hair. (From blaauw blue + bok buck, he-goat.) Also blue-buck.
August 6, 2008