[? Kaffir.] The South African native custom of marriage by purchase.
1897. Daily News, 17 July, 5/6. Mr. Rhodes … pointed out that the old system of lobola was equivalent to the custom of marriage settlement in vogue with the whites.
1901. Edin. Rev., Oct., 302. The custom of lobola—i.e. the marriage gift of cattle to the bride’s father—stands in the way of many Kafir marriages.
