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Martinique

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Mar·ti·nique  (märt-nk, -tn-k)
An island and overseas department of France in the Windward Islands of the West Indies. Inhabited first by Arawaks and later by Caribs, the island was visited by Columbus in 1502. It was colonized by French settlers after 1635. Fort-de-France is the capital. Population: 436,000.
Marti·nican adj. & n.
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Noun1.MartiniqueMartinique - an island in the eastern Caribbean in the Windward Islands; administered as an overseas region of France
French West Indies - the islands in the Lesser Antilles that are administered by France
Windward Islands, Windward Isles - a group of islands in the southeastern West Indies; the southern part of the Lesser Antilles


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I bring Dick into good air, as the doctors do, every day, in Europe, or, as I would send a patient at Martinique to the Pitons, a lofty mountain on that island, to get clear of the yellow fever.
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April 16th, we sighted Martinique and Guadaloupe from a distance of about thirty miles.
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She comes from Martinique, so I call her the beautiful Indian.
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