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- proper noun Archaic spelling of
Barbados .
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Examples
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If we had that, Barbadoes is already in communication with Jamaica and Bermuda, and from Bermuda they have a British cable to Halifax, so that we should have then a complete line by British cables from Canada around this way to Australia.
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-- A low-growing tree of the West Indies, which produces an edible fruit called the Barbadoes cherry.
Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture William Saunders 1861
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I near died of the scurvy and was rotten with it six months in Barbadoes.
Chapter 13 2010
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Eversham found it necessary to visit some estates he possesses in Barbadoes.
The Mourner 2002
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While on the little island of Barbadoes, which is flat and comparatively destitute of natural beauty, the inhabitant is proud to the verge of the ludicrous of his home, the Jamaican, dwelling amid scenes of perpetual loveliness, despises his native soil.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 Various
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Anglo-Dutch war, it was impossible for the company to furnish a sufficient supply of Negroes to Barbadoes, that is, if Lord
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I near died of the scurvy and was rotten with it six months in Barbadoes.
Chapter 13 1904
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When they got right off the place called Barbadoes, they holds a counciltation over me.
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But however lowly, we are sure that merit hovered over every action and proved the worth of the young navigator of the seas so fully that on attaining his twenty-first year he was at once entrusted with the sole command of a vessel -- the schooner "Barbadoes," sixty tons, which cleared from Philadelphia on October 2, 1766.
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For that port he had, as the youthful Captain of the schooner "Barbadoes," sailed from Philadelphia on October 2, 1766, almost a third of a century previous.
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