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Saint Domingue

Saint Domingue is the alternative form of Saint-Domingue.

Meaning of Saint-Domingue

Proper noun

Saint-Domingue

  1. (historical) A former French colony on the island of Hispaniola from 1659 to 1809, roughly equivalent to modern-day Haiti.
    • In a mere twelve years, for example, between 1779 and 1790, the slave ships that plied the coast of Africa from Sierra Leone to Mozambique unloaded close to four hundred thousand slaves in Saint Domingue.1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 40

Questions about Saint Domingue

What is Saint Domingue the alternative form of?
Saint Domingue is the alternative form of Saint-Domingue.

Words near Saint Domingue in the dictionary

  1. Saint Croix ground lizards
  2. Saint David
  3. Saint David's Day
  4. Saint Dominguan
  5. Saint Dominguans
  6. Saint Domingue
  7. Saint Dominican
  8. Saint Dominicans
  9. Saint Elias Mountains
  10. Saint Elizabeth
  11. Saint Elmo's fire

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