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West Indies vacation site
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barbados
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Barbados ( or ) is a sovereign island country in the Lesser Antilles , in the Americas . It is in length and up to in width, covering an area of . It is situated in the western area of the North Atlantic and east of the Windward Islands and the Caribbean ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Barbados \Bar*ba"dos\ or Barbadoes \Bar*ba"does\, n. A West Indian island, giving its name to a disease, to a cherry, etc. Barbados cherry (Bot.), a genus of trees of the West Indies ( Malpighia ) with an agreeably acid fruit resembling a cherry. Barbados ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
probably from Portuguese las barbados "the bearded;" the island so called because vines or moss hung densely from the trees. An inhabitant was called a Barbadian (1732).
Usage examples of barbados.
He had the same swarthy da: tan as the men on Barbados who worked the plantations regardless of the sun burning the almost as nut brown as their slaves from Afric His dark eyebrows were drawn into a sco, across his nose.
Lucia, Antigua, Guadeloupe, Nevis, Anguilla, Barbados, Dominica, and more.
I had them do a repeat of Mary Alice looking back through the book to see if there was room on a prior page to put the new Barbados stamps with the previous Barbados stamps.
Oh, she tried to make the best of it and liked it well enough, especially when James was born--but she always yearned for Antigua and always said how she envied me each time I went over to Barbados.
No more sailing the ships--the great mobile fortresses embattled against piracy and storm--to Barbados, Antigua or the American mainland, acquiring cargoes of tobacco, indigo or cotton.
Rooms near New Bond Street, with Mason waiting to hear about the Engagement in America, and Nevil Maskelyne on the Eve of sailing off upon the Barbados Trials of Mr.
Some of the answers were: the south of France, Barbados, the Galapagos Islands.
If the next Sovereign knew what was good for him, he’d make sure Daniel was assigned, by the Royal Society, to spend the rest of his life taking daily measurements of the baroscopic pressure in Barbados.
The lakes were bordered by tall Dade County pines, and the residents had planted their yards with orange, grapefruit, and mango trees, hedges of Barbados cherry and screw-leaf crotons, and several varieties of palms, including a few stately Royals.
She had obviously been drydocked before leaving England, and Ramage knew that the two days spent at anchor in Barbados - plus a few days in Cork while collecting the rest of the convoy - were the only times the ship had been at rest since then.
They had cut the grass, trimmed the Barbados cherry hedges, and lopped off some of the lower limbs of the smelly melaleuca tree in the front yard.
As he stepped through a break in the Barbados cherry hedge between the two yards, the front door opened and Garcia came out, hanging on to a struggling, giggling woman.
There was a picket fence around the back yard, and a Barbados cherry hedge had been planted against the fence.
Mr Waters finished his description, returned his last example of Barbados leg to its folder, and said, 'I am sure you have observed that most medical men are hypochondriacs, Dr Maturin.
After him, in the uniform of a colonel of the Barbados Militia, rolled a tall, corpulent man who towered head and shoulders above the Governor, with malevolence plainly written on his enormous yellowish countenance.