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  • proper noun Plural form of Hottentot.

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Examples

  • According to Veldkornet Roos, Efa hailed from the Sneeuwberg, but bore her 10-year-old daughter in Hottentots Holland, suggesting that Efa had been living near Stellenbosch for at least a decade.

    Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008

  • In Britain she was paraded as a savage around circus sideshows, museums, bars and universities, where she had to show off her protruding posterior, an anatomical feature of her native Khoisan people (formerly called the Hottentots), and her outsized genitals.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2002

  • There, she was forced to show off her protruding posterior, an anatomical feature of her native Khoisan people formerly called the Hottentots, and her outsized genitals.

    Remains of ‘Sexual Freak’ Flown to South Africa | Impact Lab 2002

  • Khoisan people (formerly called the Hottentots), and her outsized genitalia.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2002

  • The Khoi and the San were derogatorily called Hottentots and

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

  • The Khoi and the San were derogatorily called Hottentots and Bushmen.

    Address at the University of Havana, Cuba 2001

  • Presented to European audiences as the “Hottentot Venus,” Saarjie, or Sarah, Bartmann was a young African woman whose large buttocks common among the people of southern Africa whom Dutch explorers called Hottentots or Bushmen made her an object of sexual curiosity for white Westerners traveling in Africa.

    The Barbie Chronicles Yona Zeldis McDonough 1999

  • Presented to European audiences as the “Hottentot Venus,” Saarjie, or Sarah, Bartmann was a young African woman whose large buttocks common among the people of southern Africa whom Dutch explorers called Hottentots or Bushmen made her an object of sexual curiosity for white Westerners traveling in Africa.

    The Barbie Chronicles Yona Zeldis McDonough 1999

  • "Well," said he, "the fact is, when I opened my eyes and looked around, between the paragraphs in the prayer, at the assembled guests, I found that the Hottentots were the only people who had not some friends among the company."

    Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z Various

  • According to the locality occupied, they are known as Hottentots, Namaquas, or Corannas.

    Robert Moffat The Missionary Hero of Kuruman David J. Deane

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