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Caribbees

British  
/ ˈkærɪˌbiːz /

plural noun

  1. a former name for the Lesser Antilles

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The Moon of the Caribbees and some of his worst, e.g.,

From Time Magazine Archive

He was the rebel son of a prosperous English cotton-broker father, and he shipped to the Far East as a deck hand at 17 after reading O'Neill's Moon of the Caribbees.

From Time Magazine Archive

Scholars will remember them mainly as sea sketches, with The Moon of the Caribbees the major representative.

From Time Magazine Archive

In this same class, but less remote from the mainland, and in their faunas and floras showing a nearer relationship to South than to North America, belong the Caribbees.

From North America by Russell, Israel C. (Cook)

The colonies in the Caribbees and along the Atlantic seaboard were merely England's first foothold in the New World.

From Caribbee by Hoover, Thomas

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