Saint-Dominguan

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English

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Etymology

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From Saint-Domingue +‎ -an.

Adjective

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Saint-Dominguan (comparative more Saint-Dominguan, superlative most Saint-Dominguan)

  1. Synonym of Dominguan.
    • 2010, Martin Munro, Different Drummers: Rhythm and Race in the Americas, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 41:
      In October 1791, just a few months after the beginning of the Saint-Dominguan revolt, Pierre Bailly, a free mulatto from New Orleans, was tried on hearsay evidence that he had declared that he and his fellow conspirators were awaiting word ...
    • 2011, Thomas Ruys Smith, Southern Queen: New Orleans in the Nineteenth Century, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 29:
      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 ..."
    • 2014, Ronald Angelo Johnson, Diplomacy in Black and White: John Adams, Toussaint Louverture, and Their Atlantic World Alliance, University of Georgia Press, →ISBN, page 73:
      The summer of 1793 also witnessed the arrival of the first wave of Dominguan immigrants to Philadelphia. The Saint-Dominguan Revolution was in its second year, and on 20 June, the fighting reached the colonial capital at Cap Français.

Noun

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Saint-Dominguan (plural Saint-Dominguans)

  1. Synonym of Dominguan.
    • 2010, Ashli White, Encountering Revolution: Haiti and the Making of the Early Republic, JHU Press, →ISBN, page 36:
      Not surprisingly, this vision of “creoleness” was used by some white Saint-Dominguans to support slavery and the continued subjugation of free people of color.