KAROSS  , a cloak made of sheepskin, or the hide .of other animals, with the

hair left on . It is properly confined to the coat of skin without sleeves worn by the Hottentots and Bush-men of South Africa . These karosses are now often replaced by a blanket, Their, chiefs wore karosses of the skin of the wild cat, leopard or caracal . The word is also loosely applied to the cloaks of leopard-skin worn by the chiefs and principal men of the Kaffir tribes . Kaross is probably either a genuine Hottentot word, or else an adaptation of the Dutch kuras (Portuguese couraca), a cuirass .