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).

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How to use Marie Galante in a sentence

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

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

    The Long Voyage | Carl Richard Jacobi
  • All the way back to the Marie Galante, I sought to soothe him, but he was a man possessed.

    The Long Voyage | Carl Richard Jacobi
  • They had little or no money, and how they lived I don't know, but they stayed in Marie Galante for some time.

    The Heart of a Woman | Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
  • Downing has spoken to people in Martinique and also in Marie-Galante, who knew her and her son, or at any rate, of them.

    The Heart of a Woman | Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy

British Dictionary definitions for Marie Galante

Marie Galante

/ (French 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)

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