Dominguois

English

Etymology

French dominguois

Adjective

Dominguois

1. Synonym of Dominguan.
   • 1962, James Chancellor Leonhart, The Fabulous Octogenarian: Courtney W. Shropshire, M.D.: Founder and First President of Civitan International:

     […] and throat-satisfying liquid concoction—the American cocktail—by the first tenant of the building, a Dominguois apothecary, A. A. Peychaud.

   • 1991, Mary Louise Christovich, The American Sector, Pelican Publishing Company, →ISBN:

     He came to New Orleans when the Dominguois were expelled from that West Indies island by the uprising of the black slaves. In 1813 Joseph married Therese Anne Deyant, daughter of Louis Christophe Deyant and Marie Therese Valade, ...

   • 2009, Stanley Arthur, Old New Orleans, a History of the Vieux Carre, Its Ancient and Historical Buildings, Heritage Books, →ISBN, page 53:

     The apothecary's name was Antoine Amedee Peychaud, one of the Dominguois who flocked to Spanish Louisiana when the blacks drove them from their island in the sunlit Caribbean. New Orleans owes much to these French-speaking ...

   • 2010, Stanley Clisby Arthur, Famous New Orleans Drinks and How to Mix 'em, Pelican Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 9:

     Some of the expelled Dominguois who flocked to what was then Spanish Louisiana brought gold to New Orleans. Others brought slaves along with their household goods. Some brought nothing but the clothes they wore upon their backs.