Saint Dominican
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[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Saint and Dominic + -an, referring to Saint-Domingue
Adjective
[edit]Saint Dominican (comparative more Saint Dominican, superlative most Saint Dominican)
- (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
[edit]Saint Dominican (plural Saint Dominicans)
- (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."