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- noun archaic One of the
Carib people.
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Examples
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'One has to listen at times to what old sailors call Caribbee!'
The Amazing Marriage — Volume 5 George Meredith 1868
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'One has to listen at times to what old sailors call Caribbee!'
The Amazing Marriage — Complete George Meredith 1868
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'One has to listen at times to what old sailors call Caribbee!'
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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In the end we did manage to acquire some "Salt Island" sea salt at $8.50 a jar from Sunny Caribbee, a local spice company.
A Salty Tale From the Islands Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011
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When we lived on St. Lucia, in the Caribbee Sea, I was never allowed to touch his maps.
The Dragon’s Apprentice James A. Owen 2010
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When we lived on St. Lucia, in the Caribbee Sea, I was never allowed to touch his maps.
The Dragon’s Apprentice James A. Owen 2010
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When we lived on St. Lucia, in the Caribbee Sea, I was never allowed to touch his maps.
The Dragon’s Apprentice James A. Owen 2010
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The terms of our law, which are not empty sounds, will hardly find words that answer them in the Spanish or Italian, no scanty languages; much less, I think, could any one translate them into the Caribbee or Westoe tongues: and the versura of the Romans, or corban of the Jews, have no words in other languages to answer them; the reason whereof is plain, from what has been said.
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Caribbee islands, &c., amongst whom there was to be found no notion of a God, no religion?
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Yarico, a pretty Caribbee, saves his life, and at length flies with him to
madmouth commented on the word Caribbee
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And I sez to meself as the ship she rolled,
"O Caribbee! O Barbaree!
O shores of South Amerikee!
O, never go there: if the truth be told,
You'll get more kicks than Spanish gold."'
-excerpt from "Spanish Gold", within The Magic Pudding
November 13, 2009