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Saint-Domingue
Saint-Domingue
English
Proper noun
Saint-Domingue
- (now historical) A French colony on the island of Hispaniola from 1659-1809, roughly equivalent to modern-day Haiti.
- 2012, Jonathan Keates, ‘Mon Père, ce héros’, Literary Review, 402:
- The future general was born in 1762 in the French sugar colony of Saint-Domingue, in the western half of the island.
- 2012, Jonathan Keates, ‘Mon Père, ce héros’, Literary Review, 402: