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clique

[kleek, klik] / klik, klɪk /


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Coast Guard ships, ferries and caiques, like the younger members of a tribe of large marine mammals, drew close in a circle.

From New York Times • May 12, 2022

Smiling broadly, Love let her loll around up there on her back for a time, Cashew using the same upward scooping wing flaps that caiques employ to bathe on wet rain-forest leaves.

From New York Times • Jan. 28, 2016

In the wild, caiques, diminutive dollops of luminous yellow, white and deep blue-green, fly in huge, tightly knit flocks whose collective wing feathers make a singular whirring sound above the rain-forest canopy.

From New York Times • Jan. 28, 2016

Love lowered her hands and watched Cashew roll over once more on her back, a play position known as wrestling that is peculiar to caiques.

From New York Times • Jan. 28, 2016

“I mean such as Malay proas, catamarans, Arab dhows, Chinese sanpans, Japanese pilot boats, Turkish caiques, Esquimaux kiacks, Alaskan war canoes, the hooded boats of the Swiss Lakes, and so on.”

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson




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