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cabres

cabres is the plural of cabre.

Meaning of cabre

Noun

cabre (plural cabres)

  1. (obsolete or historical and generally offensive) A person of mixed black and mulatto descent.
    • Further, the registration returns for some colonies provided only a generalized “coloured” or “mulatto” category, […] The Trinidad registration returns certainly provide clear examples of mulatto-black couples having cabre children, but […]1995, B. W. Higman, Slave Populations of the British Caribbean, 1807-1834, University of West Indies Press, →ISBN, page 154

Questions about cabres

What is cabres the plural of?
Cabres is the plural of cabre.

Words near cabres in the dictionary

  1. cabrees
  2. Cabreja
  3. Cabrejas
  4. Cabrera
  5. cabrerite
  6. cabres
  7. cabresto
  8. cabrestos
  9. cabretta
  10. cabrettas
  11. cabreuva

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cabres (page history and authors); cabre (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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