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Créole
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creole Creole créole
French
thumb|Creole in a red turban
thumb|right|Depiction of a Creole girl.|upright=1.0
Etymology
An adaptation of the Castilian fr es criollo homey, local yokel, from fr pt crioulo, diminutive of pt cria person raised in one’s house, servant, from fr pt criar to rear, to bring up, from fr la creō to create
Pronunciation
fr Fr-Paris--créole.ogg Paris
fr ɔl 2
fr créoles
Noun
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Creole:
Anyone with mixed ancestry born in a country colonized by white Europeans, now especially one who speaks a creole language. from 18th c.
someone of African descent who is born in the Caribbean or Americas (originally as opposed to an African immigrant). from 18th c.
someone of mixed African, French, Spanish, and Native American ancestries.
a descendant of European settlers who is born in a colonized country. from 17th c.
fr Louisiana French dated a native-born of Latin descent in the Louisiana territory of any race or ethnicity, as opposed to Anglo-American settlers
Anagrams
fr colère
fr coléré
fr crôlée
fr éclore
fr récole, fr récolé
fr Ethnonyms