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Saint-Malo

/sɛ̃.ma.lo/

proper noun/sɛ̃.ma.lo/

Saint-Malo (a city in Brittany, France)

Related: Malouin, malouin

Said to be named after Saint Malo of Wales, whose name could be from Old Breton machlou, from mach (“hostage, warrant”) + lou (“beautiful, bright, brilliant”) (probably from the same source as Gaulish leux (“light, brilliance”)).