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Caribees

American  
[kar-uh-beez] / ˈkær əˌbiz /

noun

(used with a plural verb)
  1. Antilles


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Why, we enlisted for drummers in the Caribees, but the recruiting officer told us as we were eighteen we could carry muskets if we wanted to.

From The Iron Game A Tale of the War by Henry F. (Henry Francis) Keenan

Dick Perley, who was at the brigade headquarters, with Grandison, came to the Caribees presently with great news.

From The Iron Game A Tale of the War by Henry F. (Henry Francis) Keenan

He now made the discovery of several other new islands, particularly the Caribees and Jamaica.

From The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant by John Hamilton Moore

All that day the forces rested, the Caribees providing themselves with new arms and equipments, or the two or three hundred who had flung their own away.

From The Iron Game A Tale of the War by Henry F. (Henry Francis) Keenan

Jack was filled with dire fears that the commanding officer, having discovered the incompetency of Oswald, feared to take the Caribees to the front.

From The Iron Game A Tale of the War by Henry F. (Henry Francis) Keenan

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