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) of southern Africa was well embedded in colonial scholarly thought by the end of the eighteenth century. The main meaning of "Hottentot" as an ethnic term in the later 19th and the 20th centuries has therefore been to denote the Khoikhoi people specifically. At the same time, however, "Hottentot" also continued to be used through the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries in a wider sense, to include all of the people now usually referred to with the modern term "Khoisan" (not only the Khoikhoi, but also the San people, hunter-gatherer populations from the interior of Southern Africa who had not