Saint-Dominguois

English

Etymology

French saint-dominguois

Adjective

Saint-Dominguois

1. Synonym of Dominguan.
   • 2002, Anthropological Linguistics:

     The first fluent speakers of such an early Saint-Dominguois/Haitian Creole could not have been those that Lefebvre considers the principal agents of creole genesis, namely, the African-bom adults who were being transported en masse to ...

Noun

Saint-Dominguois (plural Saint-Dominguois)

1. Synonym of Dominguan.
   • 1985, David Nicholls, Haiti In Caribbean Context, Springer, →ISBN, page 87:

     The colonial whites had, as a result, little loyalty towards the territory, recognising a common interest as planters or merchants but not as Saint-Dominguois.

   • 1997, Albert Valdman, French and Creole in Louisiana, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 20:

     The Saint-Dominguois, many of whom were bilingual in French and Creole, would have shifted to French. The conditions for the emergence of a French-based Creole might have existed in the early stages of the Louisiana colony, at least in ...