Du Sable

[ doo -sah-bluh, sahb, dyoo; French dy -sah-bluh ]

/ du ˈsɑ blə, ˈsɑb, dyu; French dü ˈsɑ blə /

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noun

Jean Bap·tiste Pointe

[zhahn ba-teest pwant], /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist pwɛ̃t/, 1745?–1818, U.S. pioneer trader, born in Haiti: early settler of Chicago.

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