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Saint Dominican

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English

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The Saint Dominican flag.

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Saint and Dominic +‎ -an, referring to Saint-Domingue

Adjective

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Saint Dominican (comparative more Saint Dominican, superlative most Saint Dominican)

  1. (historical) Of or pertaining to Saint-Domingue or its people (inhabitants).
    • 2007, Madison Smartt Bell, The Stone that the Builder Refused: A Novel of Haiti, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 145:
      All gone now, that brandy, squandered, except for half of the very last bottle, wrapped in a shirt in Daspir's pack. But wonderful things were said of Saint Dominican rum...
    • 1946, Frank Yerby, The Foxes of Harrow, Dial Press, →ISBN, page 41:
      "Two petit Gouaves," he ordered. "And two Saint Dominican breakfasts."
    • 1946, Frank Yerby, The Foxes of Harrow, Dial Press, →ISBN, page 42:
      "Andre had a negro sent to his house to order his horse saddled. Then they sat back and awaited their breakfast in the Saint Dominican style."

Noun

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Saint Dominican (plural Saint Dominicans)

  1. (historical) A native or inhabitant of Saint-Domingue.
    • 1946, Frank Yerby, The Foxes of Harrow, Dial Press, →ISBN, page 41:
      "The good God and the Saint Dominicans alone know; but it is delicious."