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Garifuna

Gar·i·fu·na [ gàrrə fnə ] (plural Gar·i·fu·na or Gar·i·fu·nas)


noun 
Definition:
 
Caribbean coastal people: an Afro-Latino people of West African, Carib, and Arawak ancestry who now live on the Caribbean coasts of Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, and Nicaragua. They were passengers on a slave ship that wrecked on St. Vincent, but after being evicted by the British in 1797, resettled on the Central American coast.

[Late 20th century. < Arawakan]

Gar·i·fu·na adjective
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