Kaross is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.
You can make 90 anagrams from letters in kaross (akorss).
1725-35; Afrikaans karos, probably Khoikhoi
The chief Potgieter was flayed alive, and his skin made into a kaross or cloak.
Then he called some of his men, and they carried me in a kaross to this place.
Here Cetewayo, who had been about to speak, threw the corner of his kaross over his face.
On the further side of her, just by the fire, lay little Tota, wrapped in a kaross.
Then I smelt out the poison, searching for it first in the hair of Mameena, and finding it in the kaross of Masapo.
Then I hunted about in Wambe's hut, and found a kaross to put over his poor bruised shoulders, and he was quite a man again.
Women were there, too, watching for the signal, which was to be the waving of a kaross by a chief.
The kaross was fastened on the right shoulder, leaving the arm free.
He would bring his blanket from the wagon, and would not trouble Swartboy by requiring part of the latter's kaross.
kaross is probably either a genuine Hottentot word, or else an adaptation of the Dutch kuras (Portuguese couraa), a cuirass.