| Definitions | kaross
noun - A treated animal-skin cloak with the hair still left on.
- 1996, E Hausen, Human History at the Crossroads: Where Do We Go from Here?, Bergin Garvey/Greenwood, ISBN 0897894839:
- :"For the first two years, of life a baby was carried in a carrier, lined with absorbent grass, inside her , (a treated animal skin made into a cape")"
- A blanket of treated animal-skin with the hair left on.
- 1992, Mark Owens, Delia Cwens, Mark Cwens, Cordelia Dykes Owens, Cry of the Kalahari, Houghton Mifflin Books, ISBN 0395647800:
- :"Our bedroom had a sweeping view of the water and clean sheets and towels had been laid out for us on a of jackal pelts."
Etymology: From Khoisan (k)caros: a skin blanket, through Afrikaans. (Disputed see talk page.)
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