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Kloof

//kluf// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A deep glen or ravine. South-Africa

    "Forming the south boundary of the valley is a range of disrupted bushy hills, with intervening deep and rugged kloofs and ravines, which constituted the retreat of Jan Pockbaas and his rebel banditti."

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch kloof (“ravine”) (South Africa). Doublet of clove.

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