saint-dominguan
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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 ..."
- "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 ...""
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
From Saint-Domingue + -an.