St. Pierre

[ seynt pyair; French san-pyer ]

noun
  1. a city on Réunion Island, in the Indian Ocean.

  2. 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.

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How to use St. Pierre in a sentence

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