East Indie

East Indie (plural East Indies)

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

   Synonym: Black East Indian

East Indie

1. Alternative form of East Indy.
   • 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:

     Goa is a citie of the Poꝛtugales in Eaſt Indie.

   • 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:

     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; […]

   • 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:

     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.