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‖ riempie S. Afr.|ˈriːmpɪ, ˈrɪmpɪ|
Also rheimpy, riempje, rimpey, rimpi, rimpje.
[a. Du. riempje, Cape Du. rimpi.]
= riem n. Freq. used for the seats of chairs or stools. Also attrib. and in Comb.
1850R. G. Cumming Hunter's Life S. Afr. I. xvi. 384 A wide-awake hat, secured under my chin by ‘rheimpys’, or strips of dressed skin. 1885Rider Haggard K. Solomon's Mines ii, It was fastened with a little strip of hide, what we call a rimpi. 1887― A. Quatermain Introd. 2 An elephant gun with strips of rimpi, or green hide, lashed round the stocks. 1887A. A. Anderson 25 Yrs in Waggon I. xii. 280 A rope of beads of sufficient length to go round the loins twice and fastened in front with a piece of rimpey. 1891B. Mitford Romance of Cape Frontier xxiii. 419 Just slip off these bits of reimpje, Tambusa; and give me an assegai and a stick or something. 1913D. Fairbridge That which hath Been xx. 229 Heavy teak chairs with riempje seats were ranged round the wainscot with mathematical precision. 1914Kipling in Geogr. Jrnl. XLIII. 372 The smell of home⁓made rimpje on a Dutch farm at the other side of the world. 1920R. Y. Stormberg Mrs. Pieter de Bruyn xxiii. 76 Ouma du Preez on the riempje settee devoutly clasped her cotton-mittened hands. 1923O. Schreiner Thoughts on S. Afr. 17 The great clean, bare ‘voorhuis’ (front room) with its mud floors and its chairs and sofa with reimpje seats. 1926Brit. Weekly 27 May 158/4 Men and women sat on reimpje-seated chairs. 1927Glasgow Herald 14 May 11/4 The sitting-room with its beautiful chairs and settee of native wood with ‘reimpje’ bottoms (criss-crossed thongs of home-cured leather), all in a simple old Dutch style, looked strangely unfamiliar. 1937S. Cloete Turning Wheels vi. 100 While dozing in her wide riempie-bottomed chair, she had seen one girl and two men leave the camp. 1938E. A. Walker Great Trek 41 A couple of deal tables and riempie chairs and stools..as seats along the stoep. 1939‘D. Rame’ Wine of Good Hope i. iv. 44 Even Lowell, perched on a little riempie stool beside Grim..smiled at the torrent of high-pitched abuse. 1943‘B. Knight’ Covenant (1944) i. 34 Jannion saw her mother hook her foot under the top of the riempie-strung stool. 1949M. Masson Narrowing Lust xix. 180 Calmly she seated herself on a stool of riempje. 1953M. Murray Fire-Raisers x. 101 He saw that Sarel was lying on the riempje sofa, his feet on one arm. 1971Cape Times 13 Feb. 21/3 (Advt.), 2 riempie seated chairs. |
