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Carib

noun
(pl. caries)
1.
A member of an American Indian peoples of northeastern South America and the Lesser Antilles.  Synonym: Carib Indian.
2.
The family of languages spoken by the Carib.  Synonym: Caribbean language.



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"Carib" Quotes from Famous Books



... called Jajo, those at Punta de Carao are of the Arwacas (Arawaks) and between Carao and Curiapan they are called Salvajos. Between Carao and Punta de Galera are the Nepojos, and those about the Spanish city term themselves Carinepagotes (Carib-people). Of the rest of the nations, and of other ports and rivers, I leave to speak here, being impertinent to my purpose, and mean to describe them as they are situate in the particular plot and description of the island, three parts whereof ...
— The Discovery of Guiana • Sir Walter Raleigh

... danced and sang war-songs all the time their husbands were away at the wars, and they had to keep everything about them in a certain order. It was thought that a wife might kill her husband by not observing these customs. When a band of Carib Indians of the Orinoco had gone on the war-path, their friends left in the village used to calculate as nearly as they could the exact moment when the absent warriors would be advancing to attack the enemy. ...
— The Golden Bough - A study of magic and religion • Sir James George Frazer

... carvings of faces and animals on the rocks. They appear to be similar to what are found on many rivers running into the Caribbean Sea, and to those which were examined by Schomburgk on the rocks of the Orinoco and Essequibo. As others like them, of undoubted Carib workmanship, have been found in the Virgin Islands, it is possible that they are all the work of that once-powerful race, and not of the settled agricultural and statue-making Indians of the western ...
— The Naturalist in Nicaragua • Thomas Belt



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



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