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dorp
[a. Du. dorp = OE. þorp, Ger. dorf village. Cf. thorp.]
A (Dutch) village; formerly more or less naturalized in sense: Village, thorp. In South Africa, a small town.
1570–6Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) 377 By Thorpe, or Dorpe, [is meant by the Saxons] a village, yet used in the lower Germaine. 1583Stanyhurst æneis i. (Arb.) 31 Where dorps and cottages earst stood. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. (1885) I. 106 Betuene dorpe and dorpe, and toune and toune. 1609Dekker Gvlls Hornebk. 38 Tailor's Hall that now is larger than some dorpes among the Netherlands. 1650Fuller Pisgah i. vii. 18 Perizzites. By interpretation Villagers, as dwelling in dorps and Hamlets, not walled towns. 1687Dryden Hind & P. iii. 611 No neighb'ring Dorp, no lodging to be found. 1835A. Steedman Wanderings & Adv. Interior S. Afr. I. 103 Beaufort, therefore, generally presents a scene of activity, arising from the number of farmers, who on various accounts have frequent occasion to visit the Dorp. 1852C. Barter Dorp & Veld iv. 26 Maritzburg..an English town rising out of the ruins of a Dutch dorp or village. 1902Daily Chron. 23 Apr. 7/3 The most remote ‘dorp’ has not been too far placed beyond the reach of the fertilising stream. 1902J. H. M. Abbott Tommy Cornstalk 13 The dorp represented the Bush township. 1920[see backveld]. 1934R. Campbell Broken Record vii. 162 The radios of God have always spoken out of dorps like Medina and Nazareth. 1954D. D'Ewes Mydorp ii. 18 Uncle Robert and Aunt Kate..had left Mydorp..to settle themselves in a dorp down the river.
attrib.c1611Chapman Iliad xi. 587 All the dorp boors with terror fled. |
