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Carib

noun

(pl. caries)

A member of an American Indian peoples of northeastern South America and the Lesser Antilles. Synonym: Carib Indian.

The family of languages spoken by the Carib. Synonym: Caribbean language.

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"Carib" Quotes from Famous Books

... feel as if the world had turned to fire and light? It may have been but a mood of my own, it is so long since I have talked with a man near to my own age—and he is so near!—and yet so real a man.... No one could call him handsome, for he looks like a flayed Carib, and I have met some of the handsomest men in Europe and not given them a thought. Yet this man kept me beside him for four hours, and has me awake a whole night because he is not with me. Has the discipline of these last years, then, gone for nothing? ...

— The Conqueror • Gertrude Franklin Atherton

... Couvade has especially and widely prevailed in South America, not only among the Carib races of Guiana, of the Spanish Main, and (where still surviving) of the West Indies, but among many tribes of Brazil and its borders from the Amazons to the Plate, and among the Abipones of Paraguay; it also exists or has ...

— The Travels of Marco Polo, Volume 2 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa

Words linked to "Carib" : Amerindian, American-Indian language, American Indian, Carib Indian, Amerind, Indian, Amerindian language, Native American