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Trinidad: tags: [geography]

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Definition:

The southernmost Carribean island, located off the coast of Venezuela near the Orinoco river delta

^{map 1: (1897) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_Lower_Orinoco_pub._1897.jpg}
^{map 2: by OpenStreetMap®, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license}
^{https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/}
^{https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/555717#map=7/8.581/-63.715}

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Uses:

“I thought you were from Trinidad or one of those places.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Americanah (2013)

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But when after seven or eight days we found them not, we departed and directed our course for Trinidad, with mine own ship, and a small barque of Captain Cross's only; for we had before lost sight of a small galego on the coast of Spain, which came with us from Plymouth.

Sir Walter Raleigh. The Discovery of Guiana.

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You from down South! You from Trinidad! You from Barbados! Jamaica, South Africa, and the white mahn’s foot in your ass all the way to the hip.

Ralph Ellison. The Invisible Man (1952)

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Dilly sitting by the ingle, her hair hanging down, waiting for some weak Trinidad shell cocoa

James Joyce. Ulysses.