Backveld
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 Backward and unsophisticated rural areas. Africa, Southern
"And how was she to know that one may live in London, or New York, a village in Yorkshire, or a dorp in the backveld […] but one behaves inevitably, inexorably, exactly like everyone else."
Example
More examples"And how was she to know that one may live in London, or New York, a village in Yorkshire, or a dorp in the backveld […] but one behaves inevitably, inexorably, exactly like everyone else."
Etymology
From back + veld.
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