Associations to the word «Duvalier»

Dictionary definition

DUVALIER, noun. Son and successor of Francois Duvalier as president of Haiti; he was overthrown by a mass uprising in 1986 (born in 1951).
DUVALIER, noun. Oppressive Haitian dictator (1907-1971).

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne