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- noun Plural form of
caique .
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Examples
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It's also part of a trend that is bringing Turkish caiques outside their traditional harbors in the Eastern Mediterranean and into more far-flung destinations.
Slow Boat to Croatia 2009
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The native caiques were really pretty — black men with paddles standing upright, and all moving together like a machine.
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Portuguese, and Brazilian, and native caiques: English and
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Merchant vessels were tied up to a long quay alongside barges and wooden caiques.
Middlesex Eugenides, Jeffery 2002
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The harbour was only tiny, with no smart boats among the battered caiques.
The Tycoon's Mistress Craven, Sara 2000
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The harbour was only tiny, with no smart boats among the battered caiques.
The Tycoon's Mistress Craven, Sara 2000
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'I wouldn't begin to know how to sail those luggers or caiques, in fact I couldn't even sail a dinghy if you paid me.
Santorini MacLean, Alistair 1986
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As her paddles revolved, the caiques of the Turks began to dance on the waves, much to the terror of their owners.
Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833 John Auldjo
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Galata, where numbers of caiques lie ready for hire, and where the same scramble occurs for passengers as at Blackfriars or Tower Stairs in
Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833 John Auldjo
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A prettily situated village, with its Turkish burying-ground, is on the opposite side; there cypresses cast their mournful shade upon the tombs of the departed Mahomedans, and numerous parties had landed there from their caiques, and were regaling themselves under the large trees, where any happened to border the river.
Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833 John Auldjo
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