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- French · borrowed fromBois Caïman“Alligator Forest”
- English todayBois Caïman
From French Bois Caïman (“Alligator Forest”); compare Haitian Creole Bwa Kayiman.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bois Caïman
Today it means: 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. Full definition →
French Bois Caïman