landdrostとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

landdrost (複数形 landdrosts)

1. (now historical) A type of magistrate in South Africa, abolished under the British in 1827.
   • 1979, André Brink, A Dry White Season, Vintage 1998, p. 160:

     Remember the words of the young Bibault in the revolt against Van der Stel in 1706: ‘I shall not go. I am an Afrikaner and even if the landdrost kills me or puts me in jail I refuse to hold my tongue.’

   • 2020, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South, William Collins 2021, p. 82:

     About ten years before this resistance movement the settlement comprised merely four houses, one of which was used by the landdrost.