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Carib, n. and a.|ˈkærɪb|
In 6 pl. caribeis, caribes, cariues.
[a. Sp. caribe: see cannibal1.]
A. n. One of the native race which occupied the southern islands of the West Indies at their discovery: in earlier times often used with the connotation of cannibal.
1555Eden Decades W. Ind. i. i. (Arb.) 66 The wylde and myscheuous people called Canibales or Caribes, whiche were accustomed to eate mannes flesche. 1578T. N. tr. Conq. W. India 4 Others..looking for death, and to be eaten of the Cariues. 1602Metamorph. Tabacco (Collier) 10 Which at the Caribes banquet gouern'st all, And gently rul'st the sturdiest Caniball. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. VI. xlii. 259 The oppressed and enslaved Caribs.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to the Caribs of South and Central America and the West Indies, their culture or language. Cf. Caribbean a.
1881Encycl. Brit. XII. 828/2 In British Guiana the Carib tribes are the Ackawais and Caribisi of the coast and foreign regions, the Arecumas and Macusis of the savannah region. 1933L. Bloomfield Language iv. 73 In South America, we note..the Arawak and Carib families, which once prevailed in the West Indies. 1951W. Faulkner Requiem for Nun 37 It was said..that the man slept at night in a kind of pit at the site of the chateau he was planning, tied wrist to wrist with one of his captor's Carib slaves. 1970S. Selvon Plains of Caroni i. 9 It [sc. the river] might have sung some primitive Carib tune. 1984Lang. & Communication IV. ii. 93 Their motivation for attending the dügǘ is different (curiosity, boredom, a desire to learn about Carib culture).
Hence ˈCaribal a. (after cannibal); Cariˈbbean a. and n., applied to certain of the West Indian isles, and to the sea between them and the mainland; Cariˈbee (= Carib).
1849Carlyle Disc. Nigger Question 37 Under the incompetent Caribal (what we call ‘Cannibal’) possessors. 1719De Foe Crusoe (1858) 319 Their battles with the Caribbeans. Ibid. (1858) 320 How 300 Caribbees came and invaded them. 1777Robertson Hist. Amer. (1783) II. 449 A Caribbean canoe. Ibid. II. 450 The Caribbees still use two distinct languages. |