Saint Dominican

English

The Saint Dominican flag.

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Adjective

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

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."
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