Kapenaar

Noun

Kapenaar (plural Kapenaars)

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
   • 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...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

   Synonyms:

   Capetonian