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kaross

/kuh-ros/US // kəˈrɒs //UK // (kəˈrɒs) //

卡洛斯,卡罗斯,卡洛丝,卡罗思

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a cloak or rug of animal skins used in southern Africa.

Examples

  • He would bring his blanket from the wagon, and would not trouble Swartboy by requiring part of the latter's kaross.

  • He wore a kaross of leopard skins, and on his wrists and ankles were rings of ivory, the royal ornaments.

  • Now, too, I remarked that the blanket and brown coverlid had almost superseded the kaross.

  • On the second day of the expedition, the body of a Chief, in a tiger-skin kaross, was dug up (Note 1).

  • A kaross or skin blanket was thrown over the back of almost every chair and covered the one settee.