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Minuit
[ min-yoo-it ]
noun
- Peter, 1580–1638, Dutch colonial administrator in America: director general of the New Netherlands 1626–31.
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Such a refrain as "Ce minuit dall d'ennui" will boom out again and again the dull monotonous clank of his own weary spirit.
Minuit's preparations for defence were not confined to fortifying the land.
At midnight, on the 24th December, we heard a so-called Messe de minuit of Lesueurs composition.
Jumpin' to my feet I made things fly for a minuit, pilin' up the killed and wounded in a promiscous heap.
Minuit died in 1641, and the Swedish government proceeded to place the colony on a permanent footing, and called it "New Sweden."
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