Saint Dominicanとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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• Saint Dominican

語源

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

形容詞

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

1. (historical) Of or pertaining to Saint-Domingue or its people (inhabitants).
   • 1967, Hubert Cole, Christophe, King of Haiti, Viking Press (→ISBN), page 57:

     But this, from King's point of view, was almost equally unacceptable, since the French corsairs who used the Saint-Dominican ports would be better supplied for their attacks on American shipping. He asked for an additional paragraph banning privateers from ports under Toussaint's control.

   • 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.."

名詞

Saint-Dominican (複数形 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."