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名詞

straat (plural straate or straaten)

1. (South Africa) A valley between dunes.
   • 1908, Great Britain Parliament House of Commons, “Colonial Reports”, in Sessional Papers:

     The "straate" are generally level and have a fairly hard surface often broken by protruding boulders of limestone.

   • 1919, South Africa Dept. of Lands, Report of the Department of Lands, page 17:

     Dune veld consists for the most part of rolling sand hills with wide or narrow straaten running in between the rows of sand hills.