Devil's Island

noun

1. one of the Safety Islands, off the coast of French Guiana: former French penal colony.

Devil's Island

noun

1. one of the three Safety Islands, off the coast of French Guiana: formerly a leper colony, then a French penal colony from 1895 until 1938. Area: less than 2 sq km (1 sq mile) French nameÎle du Diable

Example Sentences

First, Simon had been convicted of the murder and sentenced to twenty years of labor on Devil’s Island, a French prison off the coast of South America.

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Along with a partner, he’d escaped from Devil’s Island, but he’d failed to make it to South America.

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It certainly wasn’t coming from Dreyfus, who was then serving a life sentence on Devil’s Island, Simon’s former home.

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It’s possible that, at this point in his life, a year and a half after landing at Reykjavik as a freed man, Bobby began feeling that Iceland was his personal Devil’s Island: once there, never to leave.

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The first time I set foot in Chokecherry, Colorado, I thought I’d been banished to Devil’s Island.

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