Elongated labia Elongated labia Elongated labia (also known as Sinus pudoris or macronympha and albeit nonmedically, as khoikhoi apron or hottentot apron), are a feature of certain Khoikhoi people, whose female members develop relatively elongated labia minora, hanging up to four inches outside their vulva when they are standing in an upright position. The "apron" designation was apparently gained from the tendency of early European descriptions to misidentify the pair of labia as a single, wide organ, which they called, in French, a "tablier", or "apron". This trait was first noted as far back as the 17th century, but became extensively documented
Hottentot (racial term) original role of ethnic designator, the term "Hottentot" was included into a variety of derived terms, such as the Hottentot Corps, the first Coloured unit to be formed in the South African army, originally called the "Corps Bastaard Hottentoten" (Dutch: "Corps of Bastard Hottentots"), organised in 1781 by the Dutch colonial administration of the time. The word is also used in the common names of a wide variety of plants and animals, such as the "Africanis" dogs sometimes called 'Hottentot hunting dogs'; the fish "Pachymetopon blochii", frequently simply called "hottentots"; "Carpobrotus edulis", commonly known as a 'hottentot-fig'; and "Trachyandra", commonly