Definition of "Carribean"

Carribean

noun
plural Carribeans
1. Obsolete spelling of Caribbean.
  Quotations
  Such is, even at present, the Degree of Foresight in the Carribean: he sells his Cotton Bed in the Morning, and comes in the Evening, with Tears in his Eyes, to buy it back, not having foreseen that he should want it again the next Night.
  1761, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A discourse upon the origin and foundation of the inequality among mankind, page 43
  The analysis of Dr. Duncan enumerates ten European Miocene species allied to, if not identical with, Carribean forms.
  1869, James Gay Sawkins, Reports on the Geology of Jamaica; Or, Part II. of the West Indian Survey, page 316