St. Malo

[ san ma-loh ]

noun

1. a fortified seaport in NW France, on the Gulf of St. Malo: resort; surrendered by German forces August 1944.
2. Gulf of, an arm of the English Channel in NW France. 60 miles (97 km) wide.

Example Sentences

Doerr’s Pulitzer Prize-winning World War II novel, in which blind Marie-Laure and her doting father hide from the Gestapo in the beautiful seaside redoubt of St. Malo, has the same fanciful sweep that made Michael Ondaatje’s “The English Patient” so ripe for the Hollywood treatment, replete with scheming Nazis, kindly locksmiths, precocious orphans, reclusive veterans and a cursed diamond.

From Los Angeles Times

That means almost two hours’ wait for the French veterinary inspection and it is nearly midnight before he is on the road to drop part of his load near St. Malo.

From New York Times

This part of Brittany isn’t remote, but it lacks the dash of cities such as St.-Malo, Rennes and Dinan, a small but hiply historic place that took up the majority of my single guidebook’s entry on Brittany.

From Washington Post

“St.-Malo could become an island with rising sea levels,” said Evelyne Ollivier, a local representative of the center-left political party Place Publique.

From New York Times

Morgan Hector, organizer of the St.-Malo rink, said the attraction had welcomed some 20,000 visitors last year.

From New York Times