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St. Domingue

St. 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 St. Domingue

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

Words near St. Domingue in the dictionary

  1. St. Cuthbert's beads
  2. St. Cuthbert's duck
  3. St. David's
  4. St. Dominguan
  5. St. Dominguans
  6. St. Domingue
  7. St. Elmo's fire
  8. St. Elmo's fires
  9. St. Elmo's light
  10. St. Elmo's lights
  11. St. Elsewhere

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