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Definition of Caffres

Caffre
Kaffir Kaf"fir, Kafir Ka"fir, n. [Ar. k?fir infidel, pagan, fr. kafara to be skeptical in religious matters; -- a name given to certain infidel races by the Mohammedans. Cf. Giaour.] (Ethnol.) (a) One of a race which, with the Hottentots and Bushmen, inhabit South Africa. They inhabit the country north of Cape Colony, the name being now specifically applied to the tribes living between Cape Colony and Natal; but the Zulus of Natal are true Kaffirs. (b) One of a race inhabiting Kafiristan in Central Asia. [Spelt also Caffre.] Kaffir corn (Bot.), a Cape Colony name for Indian millet.
Caffre
Caffre Caf"fre, n. See Kaffir.

Meaning of Caffres from wikipedia

- and round the world: But chiefly into the country of the Hottentots and Caffres, from the year 1772 to 1776 (1789). He also published a Catalogue of the...
- Peninsula, Muslims worldwide Non-Muslims (regardless of race). Also caffer or caffre. from Arabic kafir meaning "disbeliever". South Africa Black and Cape Coloured...
- The African wildcat (Felis lybica) is a small wildcat species with sandy grey fur, pale vertical stripes on the sides and around the face. It is native...
- cartography as Coste Des Caffres, which translates to the Coast of Caffres of the south Limpopo River in 1688, "Cafres or Caffres" being a word derived from...
- was basically presenting himself not only as "a ghazi king who fights caffres [non-muslims], but also serves as protector and master of lesser ghazis...
- (1986), 41f. Jochen S. Arndt, 'What’s in a Word? Historicising the Term ‘Caffre’ in European Discourses about Southern Africa between 1500 and 1800', Journal...
- enslaved Bantu. The earliest known reference, under the alternative spelling "caffre" is in the 1888 book The Cultivated Oranges, Lemons Etc. of India and Ceylon...
- Jochen S. (2 January 2018). "What's in a Word? Historicising the Term 'Caffre' in European Discourses about Southern Africa between 1500 and 1800". Journal...
- after Henry Calderwood of the London Missionary Society, author of Caffres and Caffre Missions. "Main Place Calderwood". Census 2011. "Dictionary of Southern...
- (1886) "The White Chief of the Umzimvubu Caffres" from Everyboy's Annual, in book form The White Chief of the Caffres (1887), was paraphrased by Mervyn Peake...