caïquejee

plural caïquejees · alternative caiquejee · alternative caiequejee

1. A person who rows a caique.

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   Having risen so early, by eleven o'clock I begin to feel tired, and generally enjoy a sound sleep on the cushions under the fig-tree; the caïquejees slumbering profoundly meanwhile in the 'Edith Belina', and my tiny guard Johannachi either discussing melons and figs, or playing in the garden with the old man's dogs...

   2016, Laurence Kelly, Istanbul: A Traveller's Reader