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  • noun Plural form of dorp.

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Examples

  • It happened via the Nats gaining control via seats rather then a majority (the cities voted UP in the 1948 elections, the dorps voted Nat, kinda like the Republicans in 2000.)

    Think Progress » Hayden approved 12-3 by Senate Intel Committee 2006

  • I can fancy how differently Laputa would have managed it all had he lived; how swift and sudden his plans would have been; how under him the fighting would not have been in the mountain glens, but far in the high-veld among the dorps and townships.

    Prester John 2005

  • I longed miserably for the places where white men were thronged together in dorps and cities.

    Prester John 2005

  • Think of the lonely farms and the little dorps wiped out of the map.

    Prester John 2005

  • Transkei's fighting-ravaged dorps of Tsolo and Qumbu could be checked by a Presidential Project Team plan to overhaul and develop the towns.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • But thinking also of the lofty spires of the Dutch Reformed churches in the South African towns and dorps, I am forced to remember that coloured worshippers are excluded from them.

    Chapter XXIV Solomon Tshekisho 1916

  • Laputa would have managed it all had he lived; how swift and sudden his plans would have been; how under him the fighting would not have been in the mountain glens, but far in the high-veld among the dorps and townships.

    Prester John John Buchan 1907

  • Think of the lonely farms and the little dorps wiped out of the map.

    Prester John John Buchan 1907

  • I longed miserably for the places where white men were thronged together in dorps and cities.

    Prester John John Buchan 1907

  • An 'at night they'd set outside iv their dorps, which, Hinnissy, is

    Mr. Dooley's Philosophy Finley Peter Dunne 1901

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