English Explanatory Dictionary

Bois Caïman

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A place in northern Haiti near Le Cap, site of a vodou ceremony in which the first major slave insurrection of the Haitian Revolution was planned on August 14, 1791.

Word forms

Bois Caïman

Etymology

From French Bois Caïman (“Alligator Forest”); compare Haitian Creole Bwa Kayiman.

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