Hottentot (racial term) in an ethnic sense. From the eighteenth century onwards, the term "hottentot" was also a term of abuse without a specific ethnic sense, comparable to "barbarian" or "cannibal". In its ethnic sense, it had developed connotations of savagery and primitivism soon already in the seventeenth century: colonial depictions of the Hottentots (Khoikhoi) in the seventeenth to eighteenth century were characterized by savagery, often suggestive of cannibalism or the consumption of raw flesh, physiological features such as steatopygia and elongated labia perceived as primitive or "simian"; and a perception of the click sounds in the Khoikhoi languages as "bestial". Thus it
Truck apron the deviation between the path of the front wheels and the rear wheels, or off-tracking. On some smaller roundabouts, the larger vehicle may have to proceed straight across the truck apron to safely navigate the roundabout. Truck aprons are used on slip lanes to compensate for a larger vehicle’s off-tracking and reduce the points of conflict in an intersection. On smaller intersections or roundabouts, the truck apron allows for bigger right-turning vehicles to navigate the corner without the rear of the vehicle travelling over the sidewalk. By essentially widening the corner, the truck apron reduces the possibility of the rear