plural of indy
"The indie bands from the Pacific Northwest played a series of concerts at local venues last month."
The East Indies, including India, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, and adjacent lands.
"The colonial archives contain detailed maps of the trade routes across the indies during the seventeenth century."
The word comes from the Latin India, which originally referred to the region south of Persia known today as India and Pakistan. It entered English through French and Portuguese traders who used it to describe goods arriving from that distant land.