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kloof kloof noun a deep ravine 1916GreenmantleSo Peter and I went up on each side of him, taking an arm apiece, as I had once seen done to a man with vertigo in the Kloof Chimney on Table Mountain.1917FinishedIt stood on a green and swelling mound behind which was a wooded kloof where ran a stream that at last precipitated itself in a waterfall over a great cliff.1977A Sparrow Falls...Baines Kloof where the mountain fell away on his left hand sheer into the valley…Labels: H. Rider Haggard, John Buchan, Wilbur Smith
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