Dutch West Indies
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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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
A onetime Delaware schoolteacher, George Messersmith has been in the diplomatic service 32 years�he had served in Canada, the Dutch West Indies, Belgium and Luxembourg before he went to Berlin.
From Time Magazine Archive
Standard and Royal Dutch fleets go to their respective island refineries at Aruba and Cura�ao, in the Dutch West Indies, where politics are European, not Latin American.
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
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