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vlei
/ vleɪ; fleɪ /
noun
- an area of low marshy ground, esp one that feeds a stream
- dialect.a marsh
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of vlei1
C19: from Afrikaans (for sense 1); from obsolete N American Dutch dialect (for sense 2): valley
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Example Sentences
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“We know what happened to your business in Dead Man’s Vlei. The police were there! They closed up your little shebeen and took your slaves away. You have no business, She Elephant.”
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Of course the General knew about the visit to Dead Man’s Vlei, and perhaps a good deal more than they had reported.
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Regretfully, the vlei people moved away as silently as they had come.
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They reflected on the ghostly faces of the vlei people.
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“We can clear out. We’ve done it before. And the vlei people are as hard to spot as chameleons.”
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