Kapenaar

plural Kapenaars · alternative Capenaar · alternative Kaapenaar

1. A native or inhabitant of the city of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.

   Fowls serenaded, and dogs passed the time lazily, even in the Gentlemen’s Walk. The bustle and spirit of absorbing competition which so pervade modern life had not yet infected the Kapenaars.

   1926, P[ercy] W[ard] Laidler, A Tavern of the Ocean: Being a Social and Historical Sketch of Cape Town from Its Earliest Days, Cape Town: Maskew Miller, Limited, page 173

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   The sun shone upon rectangular streets lined with reed-thatched houses, many of them the stately, classical houses of the Seventeenth Century, their many-paned windows set with regularity on either side of a tall, dignified door, pilasters lifting themselves from street to roof level, and each house with a stone stoep upon which the Kapenaars sat in the cool of summer evenings.

   1948, H[enry] V[ollam] Morton, “In which I see the original diary of van Riebeeck, […]”, in In Search of South Africa, London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., page 58

   The early Dutch settlers and the English who followed them were living in Europe’s remotest outpost, not in Africa. Mountain ranges, and the Kalahari and Karroo deserts to the north and east, were between them and their rivals for possession of the country, the Bantu-speaking tribes. Life was peaceful; the Kapenaars’ eyes were turned to Europe (some say they still are), while out east on the frontier history was made.

   1961, Randolph Vigne, “The Literature of South Africa”, in A[lan] L[indsey] McLeod, editor, The Commonwealth Pen: An Introduction to the Literature of the British Commonwealth, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, page 80

   Synonyms: Capetonian