Pelée
Mount, a volcano in the West Indies, on the island of Martinique: eruption 1902. 4,428 feet (1,350 meters).
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How to use Pelée in a sentence
That play was his own composition, and when I had praised it, he told me that it was a 'tete pelee'.
The Memoires of Casanova, Complete | Jacques Casanova de SeingaltMorning mists over the lake, the Pelee coming up out of them.
The Hive | Will Levington ComfortI can hear the placid natives say: "Old Father Pelee is our protector—not our destroyer."
The San Francisco Calamity | VariousOnly just recovered from the catastrophe of Mont Pelee when a hurricane comes and sweeps away their homes again!
The Independence Day Horror at Killsbury | Asenath Carver CoolidgeOnly a few days before Mount Pelee erupted, the cities of Guatemala were shaken down by tremendous earthquakes.
Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror | Richard Linthicum
British Dictionary definitions for Pelée
/ (pəˈleɪ) /
Mount Pelée a volcano in the Caribbean, in N Martinique: erupted in 1902, killing every person but one in the town of Saint-Pierre. Height: 1463 m (4800 ft)
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