vluchtelingenkamp
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Etymology edit
From vluchteling + -en- + kamp, probably a calque of English refugee camp. First attested around 1900 in relation to the Second Boer War, denoting the British internment/concentration camps. As a result it was initially considered a cynical, sanitised term, but the word became more neutral during the First World War.
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Noun edit
vluchtelingenkamp n (plural vluchtelingenkampen, diminutive vluchtelingenkampje n)