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Spanish Main

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The circular bank of islands forming the northern and eastern boundaries of the Caribbeʹan Sea, beginning from Mosquito, near the isthmus, and including Jamaica, St. Domingo, the Leeward Islands, and the Windward Islands, to the coast of Venezueʹla in South America.

“We turned conquerors, and invaded the main of Spain.”—Bacon.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Spafields (London)
Spagiric Art
Spagiric Food
Spagnaletto [the little Spaniard]
Spaie
Spain
Span New
Spaniel
Spanish Blades
Spanish Brutus (The)
Spanish Main
Spanish Money
Spanish Worm
Spank (A)
Spanker (A)
Spanking
Spare the Rod and Spoil the Child
Sparkling Heat
Spartan Dog
Spasmodic School
Speaker’s Eye

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Spanish Main