An archaic or variant term for a Carib or Caribbean person, used in older English texts.
An older English spelling and form of 'Carib' or 'Caribbean,' used before standardized spelling developed. The -ee suffix was sometimes applied to denote a person from a place or group.
This spelling shows how English used to be much more inconsistent—the same word could be spelled five different ways in a single document, which makes reading old texts feel like solving a puzzle!
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