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  • proper noun The Windward Islands

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Examples

  • It is of of the "Windwards Islands" of part of the island group refered to as the Lesser Antillies and part of the region known as the Caribbean or the West Indies.

    Barbados 2009

  • In Jamaica, Trinidad and Barbados investment represents a relatively high ratio of national income, but this is far from being the case with the poorer islands of the Windwards and Leewards groups.

    Challenge of the West Indies 1958

  • He had a schooner named the _Voodoo_, a coast cruiser that never went further to sea than the Windwards.

    The Belted Seas Arthur Willis Colton

  • Windwards, about thirty miles east of Tobago, where Clyde's cleverness came to nothing.

    The Belted Seas Arthur Willis Colton

  • Just so surely I never saw him again, when once we'd drifted apart that night among the Windwards.

    The Belted Seas Arthur Willis Colton

  • Windwards and to the triangle of three trees, with Sadler, Irish, and

    The Belted Seas Arthur Willis Colton

  • Many of the fleeing French colonials found safety in the smaller islands of France in the Windwards: many took shelter in Cuba under the sovereignty of Spain; many others came to the continent.

    The Harris Letters 1800

  • However, it was once again Rawl Lewis who made the breakthrough for the Windwards.

    TrinidadExpress Today's News Garth Wattley 2010

  • The dismissal of Smith, the Windwards 'most accomplished player, was a killer blow.

    TrinidadExpress Today's News Garth Wattley 2010

  • T have a bye in the current round of matches, which began yesterday, and will be up against the Windwards as they host the five other teams in the penultimate round of the competition beginning on February 19.

    TrinidadExpress Today's News Roger Seepersad 2010

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