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- noun Plural form of
Caribbee .
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Examples
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Læstrygonians were known as Caribbees, Caribales, or Canibales, and have thus furnished an epithet which we have since learned to apply to man-eaters the world over.
The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest John Fiske 1871
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He had boned up on the Caribbees, and if any trust can be put in human testimony they must be splendid for scenery and absorbing for geology.
The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008
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He had boned up on the Caribbees, and if any trust can be put in human testimony they must be splendid for scenery and absorbing for geology.
The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008
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Most of the first travellers and missionaries say that the Brazilians, the Caribbees, the Iroquois, the Hurons, and some other tribes, ate their captives taken in war; and they do not consider this as the practice of some individuals alone, but as a national usage.
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Caribbees descended from the inhabitants of Caria, and the Hurons from the Jews, he would have done well to have brought back the bottle containing the wits of these reasoners, which he would doubtless have found in the moon, along with those of
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The Caribbees were wont to geld their children, on purpose to fat and eat them.
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New Andalusia, and the Missions of the Caribbees, from whence they returned to Cumana in 1800.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. Various
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England obtained possession of the entire chain of the Caribbees.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr
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The Caribbees ascribed diseases to Maboia; and whenever they were desirous of knowing the result of any illness with which they were afflicted, they presented an offering to Maboia, and sent for a Boia in the night, who, on his arrival, ordered the fires to be extinguished.
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Others derive it from Tabasco, a province of Mexico; others from the island of Tobago one of the Caribbees; and others from Tobasco in the gulf of Florida.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings
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