Keld vs Veld - What's the difference?
keld | veld |
The open pasture land or grassland of South Africa.
* 1979 , , A Dry White Season , Vintage 1998, p. 79:
* 1994 , (Nelson Mandela), Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 11:
* {{quote-news, 2007, January 14, Caroline Elkins, A Life Exposed, New York Times
, passage=For Holmes, Baartman’s journey as an object of European curiosity and African exploitation began on the veld of South Africa’s Eastern Cape. }}
As an adjective keld
is having a kell or covering; webbed.As a noun veld is
the open pasture land or grassland of South Africa.veld
English
(wikipedia veld)Alternative forms
* veldtNoun
(en noun)- Pale yellow and greyish brown, the bare veld of late summer lay flat and listless under the drab sky.
- From an early age, I spent most of my free time in the veld playing and fighting with the other boys of the village.
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