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Karroo   Listen
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Karroo  n.  (pl. karroos)  (Also karoo)  One of the dry table-lands of South Africa, which often rise terracelike to considerable elevations.
The Great Karroo, or The Karroo, a vast plateau, in Cape Colony, stretching through five degrees of longitude, at an elevation of about 3,000 feet.






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"Karroo" Quotes from Famous Books



... purple, vine-clad slope the argent river dreams; The roses almost hide the house from view; A snow-peak of the Winterberg in crimson splendor gleams; The shadow deepens down on the karroo. He seeks the lily-scented dusk beneath the orange tree; His pipe in silence glows and fades and glows; And then two little maids come out and climb upon his knee, And one is like ...
— The Spell of the Yukon • Robert Service



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