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n. - A group of mountainous islands in the Atlantic off the northwest coast of Africa forming Spanish provinces.

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  • Arbeau says that some consider the name Canaries to be that of a dance in use in those islands.
  • If anything, Gunnoe had to resist pressure to speed up "Canaries" -- to make it, in her words, more danceable.
  • The archil of the Canaries is a very ancient branch of commerce; this lichen is however found in less abundance in the island of
  • The people which first inhabited this land were called Canaries by the conquerors, they were clothed in goat skinnes made like vnto
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