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English
Etymology
Borrowed from French caïquejee, ultimately from Turkish kayıkçı (“boatman”).
Noun
caïquejee (plural caïquejees)
- A person who rows a caique.
2016, Laurence Kelly, Istanbul: A Traveller's Reader:Having risen so early, by eleven o'clock I begin to feel tired, and generally enjoy a sound sleep on the cushions under the fig-tree; the caïquejees slumbering profoundly meanwhile in the 'Edith Belina', and my tiny guard Johannachi either discussing melons and figs, or playing in the garden with the old man's dogs...
Translations
a person who rows a caïque