Crossword-Solution: CAIQUE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Caique | n. | A light skiff or rowboat used on the Bosporus; also, a Levantine vessel of larger size. |
We have 2 clues for the answer “CAIQUE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Levantine vessel | 2 answers |
| rowboat | 9 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEREA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CAIQUE (5)
Are these the promises we made each other? Were I you, I would sooner set off to the Hyeres islands in a caique, on the chance of being captured by an Algerian corsair and sold to the Grand Turk.
Also, heavy drops of rain still bespattered our heads and shoulders, and at every peal of thunder the tree quivered and creaked until the strident din around us gave one the illusion of being afloat in a narrow caique.
That boat--slim, shining, and shooting through the water like a pike after a small fish--was a caique from Tophana; it had distanced the Sultan's oarsmen and the best crews of the Capitan Pasha in the Bosphorus; it was the workmanship of Togrul-Beg, Caikjee Bashee of his Highness.
Cornichon, the French envoy in the camp of the victorious Ibrahim, the march of the Egyptian army was stopped--the menaced empire of the Ottomans was saved from ruin; the Marchioness of Stokepogis, our ambassador's lady, appeared in a suite of diamonds which outblazed even the Romanoff jewels, and Rafael Mendoza obtained the little caique.
Clarke? She was now being questioned about a trip at night in a caique with Hadi Bey down the sweet waters of Asia where willows lean over the stream.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1970–1972).