St. Pierre

[ seynt pyair; French san pyer ]

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noun

a city on Réunion Island, in the Indian Ocean.
a former city on Martinique, in the French West Indies: destroyed 1902, with the entire population of 26,000, by an eruption of the volcano Mt. Pelée.

"The great floats of wood in the basin of St. Pierre have been swept into the current of the valley," said a third.

It is possible that had our landing in St. Pierre been at noonday it would not have been so ever-memorable.

M. de St. Pierre undoubtedly has a great deal of imagination, and deserves to be called a poet.

But it is the tower of St. Pierre which is its glory and the boast of Normandy.

St. Pierre-sur-Dives and the collegiate at Eu are later monastic works of the province.

April 23, 2024inveterate

[in-vet-er-it ]

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