Pelée

American  

[puh-ley] / pəˈleɪ /

noun

1. Mount, a volcano in the West Indies, on the island of Martinique: eruption 1902. 4,428 feet (1,350 meters).

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Pelée British  

/ pəˈleɪ /

noun

1. 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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Example Sentences

A pyroclastic flow from Mount Pelée claimed the lives of nearly 30,000 on the Caribbean island of Martinique in 1902.

From Scientific American • Jul. 11, 2023

Two months later, geologists Tempest Anderson and John S. Flett of the Royal Society of London survived a smaller eruption of Mount Pelée.

From Forbes • May 9, 2015

I’d been gawking at Mount Pelée since I arrived, but it played hide-and-seek behind clouds.

From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2014

Dr. Tropsch pointed out that natural gases collected from the crater of Mont Pelée were found to be mixed in proportions approximating those used in the laboratory for synthetic petroleum.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was one of the most powerful in history, more explosive even than Pelée.

From "I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980" by Lauren Tarshis