Caribees


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An•til•les

(ænˈtɪl iz)

n.pl.
a chain of islands in the West Indies, divided into two parts, one including Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico (Greater Antilles), the other including a large arch of smaller islands to the SE and S (Lesser Antilles or Caribees).
An•til′le•an, adj., n.
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Noun 1. [画像:Caribees - a group of islands in the southeastern West Indies]Caribees - a group of islands in the southeastern West Indies
Antilles - a group of islands in the West Indies
Netherlands Antilles - a group of islands in the Lesser Antilles just to the north of Venezuela that are administered by The Netherlands
Leeward Islands - a group of islands in the eastern West Indies
Windward Islands, Windward Isles - a group of islands in the southeastern West Indies; the southern part of the Lesser Antilles
Barbados - easternmost of the West Indies about 300 miles to the north of Venezuela
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In July of that year he was named Royal Governor of the "Caribees": Barbados, St.
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A stay in Venezuela provided material for Fombombo (1923), Red Sand (1924), Strange Moon (1929), and Clues of the Caribees (1929).
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The first, Moon of the Caribees, shows the crew of the tramp steamer Glencairn swilling rum and wenching; in The Long Voyage Home a sailor is shanghaied in a Cardiff bar just as he is about to return home to Sweden; and in In the Zone the reproachful letters of a lost sweetheart show us the terrible price that can be exacted by Demon Rum.
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