Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word MARTINIQUAIS

Definitions of MARTINIQUAIS

1. Martinican
2. A Martinican.

Examples of Using MARTINIQUAIS in a Sentence

• The Martiniquais appreciated Zobel’s stories because they accurately portrayed the habits and customs of the island and its people without exaggerating the exoticism of their lifestyle.
• In 1860, he published, with the photographer Hartmann, a series of 16 lithographs entitled Album of Demerara, and in that same year contributed one of the scenes in Album Martiniquais, published by Hartmann and the lithographer Eugène Cicéri.
• The 20th-century Martiniquais poet and politician, Aimé Césaire (1913–2008) invokes the Oriflamme in his poem "Your Hair" ("Chevelure").
• Originally intended as a counter to the doctrine of Négritude, and its stress on an African rather than Caribbean identity, Antillanité was positively received by a number of prominent Martinican intellectuals, in particular the Groupe de Recherches de l'Institut Martiniquais d'Etudes headed by Édouard Glissant, which published the results of its discussions on Caribbean identity in the short-lived journal Acoma (1971–73).
• André Aliker (Roches-Carrées, Lamentin, 10 February 1894 - 10, 11 or 12 January 1934) was a militant Martiniquais communist journalist who was abducted and murdered.
• Steeve Gustan (born 26 January 1985 in Martinique) is a Martiniquais international footballer who plays for CS Bélimois Lamentin of the Martinique Promotion d'Honneur the second level of Martinique's football league system.
• Arnaud Émile Benoît Huygues des Etages (born 30 December 1985) is a Martiniquais professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for the club Aiglon du Lamentin, and the Martinique national team.

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