Dominguan
/dɔ.mɪŋ.ən/
Dominguan adjective: of or pertaining to Saint-Domingue or its people (inhabitants).
Adjective
Dominguan (comparative more Dominguan, superlative most Dominguan)
- Of or pertaining to Saint-Domingue or its people (inhabitants).
- There was no Dominguan currency per se and the livre tournois was officially fixed at 50 per cent above par to attract coinage into the colony.1982, David Patrick Geggus, Slavery, War, and Revolution: The British Occupation of Saint Domingue, 1793-1798
- […] that Jefferson had proclaimed and Dunmore had delivered, the Dominguan slaves reminded their Virginia brethren that the struggle to fulfill the promise of 1776 was far from over. With Dominguan planters fleeing in all directions, news of […]2000, Douglas R. Egerton, Gabriel's Rebellion: The Virginia Slave Conspiracies of 1800 and 1802, UNC Press Books, →ISBN, page 47
- Synonyms:
- Saint-Dominguan, Dominguois, Saint-Dominguois, Saint Dominican
Noun
Dominguan (plural Dominguans)
- A native or inhabitant of Saint-Domingue.
- The mass arrival of Saint-Dominguan slaves, with their own religious practices, clearly had a profound effect on its development. As Sublette asserts, “[t]he newly arrived Domingans' vodou that came en masse from eastern Cuba had to coexist ..."2011, Thomas Ruys Smith, Southern Queen: New Orleans in the Nineteenth Century, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 29
- He appreciated that thoughts of revenge for past slavery and continued socia subordination to white Dominguans have “persuaded the blacks to want to cut the throats of the whites.” Ill-intentioned white Dominguans compounded the ...2014, Ronald Angelo Johnson, Diplomacy in Black and White: John Adams, Toussaint Louverture, and Their Atlantic World Alliance, University of Georgia Press, →ISBN, page 150
Examples of Dominguan in a sentence
- […] was one of twenty-six men of Dominguan descent to marry into a New Orleans family.2013, Emily Clark, The Strange History of the American Quadroon: Free Women of Color in the Revolutionary Atlantic World, UNC Press Books...
- The summer of 1793 also witnessed the arrival of the first wave of Dominguan immigrants to Philadelphia.2014, Ronald Angelo Johnson, Diplomacy in Black and White: John Adams, Toussaint Louverture, and Their Atlantic World Alliance, University...
Synonyms of Dominguan
Forms of Dominguan
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more Dominguan |
| superlative | most Dominguan |
| Noun | |
| plural | Dominguans |
Origin of Dominguan
Domingue (Saint-Domingue) + -an
Phrases with Dominguan
Questions about Dominguan
- What does Dominguan mean?
- Dominguan means of or pertaining to Saint-Domingue or its people (inhabitants).
- How do you use Dominguan in a sentence?
- […] was one of twenty-six men of Dominguan descent to marry into a New Orleans family.
- What part of speech is Dominguan?
- Dominguan can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce Dominguan?
- Dominguan is pronounced /dɔ.mɪŋ.ən/.
Words near Dominguan in the dictionary
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