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Caribbee [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of or pertaining to the Caribs, to their islands (the eastern and southern West Indies), or to the sea (called the Caribbean sea) lying between those islands and Central America.

Caribbee [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A Carib.

Caribbee islan ds Encyclopedia Britannica

CARIBBEE ISLAN DS, in its more extended sense, is a name applied to the whole of the West Indies; but strictly, it only comprehends that cluster of islands stretching from Porto Rico to the coast of South America, and known as the Leeward and Windward Islands. See West Indies.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 5, p. 103
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