dominguan
/dɔ.mɪŋ.ən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to Saint-Domingue or its people (inhabitants).
noun
A native or inhabitant of Saint-Domingue.
Example Sentences
- "There was no Dominguan currency per se and the livre tournois was officially fixed at 50 per cent above par to attract coinage into the colony."
- "[…] that Jefferson had proclaimed and Dunmore had delivered, the Dominguan slaves reminded their Virginia brethren that the struggle to fulfill the promise of 1776 was far from over. With Dominguan planters fleeing in all directions, news of […]"
- "[…] was one of twenty-six men of Dominguan descent to marry into a New Orleans family. When he wed Maria Martina Populus in 1815, he joined one of the most prominent and oldest of the city's free black families. Perhaps his service in the battle won him acceptance ..."
- "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."
- "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 ...""
- "He appreciated that thoughts of revenge for past slavery and continued socia subordination to white Dominguans have “persuaded the blacks to want to cut the throats of the whites.” Ill-intentioned white Dominguans compounded the ..."
Etymology
Domingue (Saint-Domingue) + -an
Word Breakdown
- Suffix: -an