East Indie

plural East Indies

1. A domestic duck of an ornamental bantam breed thought to have originated in the United States.

   Synonyms: Black East Indian

1. alternativeAlternative form of East Indy.

   Goa is a citie of the Poꝛtugales in Eaſt Indie.

   1577, Richarde Willes, transl., “Certayne Reportes of the Prouince China, Learned through the Portugalles There Imprisoned, and Chiefly by the Relation of Galeotto Perera, […]”, in [Peter Martyr d’Anghiera], translated by Richarde Eden and Richarde Willes, The History of Trauayle in the West and East Indies, and Other Countreys Lying Eyther Way, towardes the Fruitfull and Ryche Moluccaes. […], London: […] Richarde Iugge, →OCLC, folio 250, verso, marginal note

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   In anno 1604, hee had been the ſecond time Admerall of the Eaſt Indie fleet, where hee had made proofe what he was able to do; […]

   1613, [Jan Janszn Orlers], [Henrick van Haestens], translated by W. Shute, “A True Rehearsall of a Fight at Sea, in the Road before Gibraltar, […]”, in The Triumphs of Nassau: or, A Description and Representation of All the Victories Both by Land and Sea, Granted by God to the Noble, High, and Mightie Lords, the Estates Generall of the Vnited Netherland Prouinces. […], London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, page 372

   These seafaring men are uncertain the best of times; then there is no doubt but the pirates on the East Indie coast killed them all.

   1889 November 23, W. B. Cossitt, “Elizabeth Edwards’s Thanksgiving. With Lavender Silks for ‘Second Mourning.’”, in Good Housekeeping […], volume 10, number 2 (119 overall), Springfield, Mass.: Clark W. Bryan & Co., Publishers, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 36, column 2