Kraal

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Kraal (also spelled craal or kraul) is a Dutch and Afrikaans word, also used in South African English, for an enclosure for cattle or other livestock, located within a Southern African settlement or village surrounded by a fence of thorn-bush branches, a palisade, mud wall, or other fencing, roughly circular in form. It is similar to a boma in eastern or central Africa. In Curaçao, another former Dutch colony, the enclosure was called "koraal" which means corral and which in Papiamentu is translated "kura", a word still in use today for any enclosed terrain, like a garden.

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