Marie Galante

[ French ma-ree ga-lahnt ]

noun

1. an island in the E West Indies: a dependency of Guadeloupe. 58 sq. mi. (150 sq. km).

Marie Galante

/ mari ɡalɑ̃t /

noun

1. an island in the E Caribbean southeast of Guadeloupe, of which it is a dependency. Chief town: Grand Bourg. Pop: 12 488 (1999). Area: 155 sq km (60 sq miles)

Example Sentences

The first he named Dominica, the second Marie-Galante, names which they retain to the present day.

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Norris had given orders to return to the Marie Galante, and the rest of us were sullenly making ready to start the back trail.

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All the way back to the Marie Galante, I sought to soothe him, but he was a man possessed.

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They had little or no money, and how they lived I don't know, but they stayed in Marie Galante for some time.

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Downing has spoken to people in Martinique and also in Marie-Galante, who knew her and her son, or at any rate, of them.

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