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"Gombo Zhèbes." Little Dictionary of Creole Proverbs

Note 33 — Little Dictionary of Creole Proverbs.

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Caïe or Caille, as sometimes written, is a Creole word of Carib origin. In the cities of the Antilles case is generally substituted—probably derived from the Spanish casa, “house.”

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