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toussaint

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Toussaint was the chief of a leper colony in South America ( 1890 – unknown, in Chacachacare ), known for his appearance in the book Papillon . The book recounted the escapes of Henri Charrière from the French penal colony of Devil's Island in French Guiana ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
French, literally "feast of All Saints" (Nov. 1), from tous , plural of tout "all" + saint "saint."

Usage examples of toussaint.

Thus, in December, a representative from Toussaint, Joseph Bunel, dined with Adams, marking the first time a man of African descent was the dinner guest of an American President.

It was Susan, his half sister, running slightly ahead of Philomena Toussaint and the Queen Mother, who were strolling arm-in-arm, enjoying the spring sunshine.

The Queen looked up and saw Diana driving Fitzroy Toussaint, who was sitting in the front passenger seat waving his arms to the music.

Diana was stumbling now and Fitzroy Toussaint, dazzling in his dark suit, took her arm solicitously.

Philomena Toussaint began speaking in tongues and Mr Pike, carried away by the emotional atmosphere, confided that his dream for Castle Prison was to see flushing lavatories installed in every cell.

Meanwhile, Philomena Toussaint sat next door in her kitchen, listening to the sounds of jollity next door.

Desperate for food for his starving troops, Toussaint wanted the American embargo lifted from the former French colony.

Vicente Rossi, el tamaño mitológico de Abraham Lincoln, los quinientos mil muertos de la Guerra de Secesión, los tres mil trescientos millones gastados en pensiones militares, la estatua del imaginario Falucho, la admisión del verbo linchar en la décimotercera edición del Diccionario de la Academia, el impetuoso film Aleluya, la fornida carga a la bayoneta llevada por Soler al frente de sus Pardos y Morenos en el Cerrito, la gracia de la señorita de Tal, el moreno que asesinó Martín Fierro, la deplorable rumba El Manisero, el napoleonismo arrestado y encalabozado de Toussaint Louverture, la cruz y la serpiente en Haití, la sangre de las cabras degolladas por el machete del papaloi, la habanera madre del tango, el candombe.

Toussaint picked at his acoustic guitar, playing a complicated version of 'When the Levee Breaks.

Quite apart from the fact that Dean here is an atheist, and Toussaint is a Black Muslim, and Che-u is a Buddhist, and John is a Baptist, and I myself used to be a Mormon but quit on account of the fact that they gave up polygamy and they didn't give Green Stamps.

Toussaint was playing the theme from All in the Family on his guitar, and Mean Dean was reading a Death Rattle comic.

He quoted Fanon, Farrakhan, Salid, Wright, Cleaver, King, Garvey, he talked about the Rastas and the Muslims and the BLA and the American Mau Mau, he talked about Toussaint L'Ouverture and Chaka Zulu and Bobby Seale and Nat Turner.

He perceived the possibility of not returning to the Rue Plumet, and he could neither leave Toussaint behind nor confide his secret to her.

He saw that possibly he should not return to the Rue Plumet, and he could neither leave Toussaint behind, nor tell her his secret.