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) is possible to speak from the seventeenth century onwards of a European, colonial image of "the Hottentot" which bore little relation to any realities of the Khoisan in Africa, and which fed into the usage of "hottentot" as a generalised term of abuse. Correspondingly, the word is "sometimes used as ugly slang for a black person". Use of the derived term "hotnot" was explicitly proscribed in South Africa by 2008. Accordingly, much recent scholarship on the history of colonial attitudes to the Khoisan, or on the European trope of 'the Hottentot', puts the term "Hottentot" in scare quotes. In its