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Bois Caïman
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English
Etymology
From en fr Bois Caïman Alligator Forest; compare Haitian Creole Bwa Kayiman.
Proper noun
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.