Dutch West Indies

British  

plural noun

1. a former name of the Netherlands Antilles

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Dutch West Indies

But the Dutch West Indies Company told Stuyvesant that business was business and Jews should remain as long as they could contribute to the outpost’s commercial well-being.

From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2016

Because the British did not enforce the 1733 law, however, New England mariners routinely smuggled these items from the French and Dutch West Indies more cheaply than they could buy them on English islands.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 30, 2014

On the opening day, Cuba's soccer team was dumped 2-1 by the tiny Dutch West Indies.

From Time Magazine Archive

It rains very little in the Dutch West Indies unless there is a hurricane, and water from the few wells has a heavy salt content.

From "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor

The British West Indies, as we have seen, formerly exported 30,000,000 lbs., the French and Dutch West Indies 17,000,000, Cuba and Porto Rico 56,000,000, and St. Domingo, in the last century, 76,000,000.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by Simmonds, P. L.