Saint-Domingue

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Saint-Domingue

/sɛn dɔ.mɪŋ/

proper noun Saint Domingue · St. Domingue · St Domingue

historical A former French colony on the island of Hispaniola from 1659 to 1809, roughly equivalent to modern-day Haiti. In a mere twelve years, for example, between 1779 and 1790, the slave ships that plied the coast of Africa from Sierra Leone to Mozambique unloaded close to four hundred thousand slaves in Saint Domingue.
Similar: pearl of the Antilles

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@misc{saint_domingue_2026,
  title = {Saint-Domingue},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/saint-domingue},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}