Griqua

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English

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Etymology

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From Afrikaans Griekwa.

Noun

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Griqua (plural Griquas or Griqua)

  1. Any of a subgroup of South Africa's heterogeneous and multiracial black people, originally populating the frontiers of the infant Cape Colony, living as seminomadic commandos of mounted gunmen.
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