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
Airport apron to as PQ ("pavement quality") concrete. In the United States, the word "ramp" is an older term for an area where pre-flight activities were done; an "apron" was any area for parking and maintenance. Passenger gates are the main feature of a terminal ramp. The word "apron" is the ICAO and FAA terminology (the word "ramp" is not), so the word "ramp" is not used with this meaning outside the US, Canada, Maldives, and the Philippines. Airport apron The airport apron or apron, sometimes known as tarmac, is the area of an airport where aircraft are parked, unloaded or loaded,