Definition of "vlei" []

• A wet land or lake (noun)

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• "Intelligence officer and his escort crossed the vlei, which is the principal outlying feature of that typical little South African township."
• "Five miles from the river we came to a long narrow vlei [a vlei is a shallow valley, generally with water in it], which lay across our path."
• "The back story: Simonsvlei is an amalgam of Simon (as in Simon van der Stel, who founded South Africa's wine industry in the 17th century) and the "vlei" (wetlands) landscape surrounding the vineyards."