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noun
1.
a person born in the West Indies or Spanish America but of European, usually Spanish, ancestry.
2.
a person born in Louisiana but of usually French ancestry.
3.
(sometimes lowercase) a person of mixed black and European, especially French or Spanish, ancestry who speaks a creolized form of French or Spanish.
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COLLAPSE(usually lowercase) Archaic. a black person born in the New World, as distinguished from one brought there from Africa.
adjective
8.
(sometimes lowercase) of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a Creole or Creoles.
9.
(usually lowercase) Cookery. indicating a spicy sauce or dish made especially with tomatoes, peppers, onions, celery, and seasonings, and often served with rice.
10.
(sometimes lowercase) bred or growing in a country, but of foreign origin, as an animal or plant.
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Creole
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Origin:
1595–1605; < French < Spanish criollo < Portuguese crioulo native, derivative of criar to bring up < Latin creāre; see create
1595–1605; < French < Spanish criollo < Portuguese crioulo native, derivative of criar to bring up < Latin creāre; see create
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half-Cre·ole, adjective
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- Other first-rate choices are grilled fresh monkfish with a spicy, freshly made creole sauce.
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World English Dictionary
| creole (ˈkriːəʊl) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | Compare pidgin a language that has its origin in extended contact between two language communities, one of which is generally European. It incorporates features from each and constitutes the mother tongue of a community |
| —adj | |
| 2. | denoting, relating to, or characteristic of creole |
| 3. | (of a sauce or dish) containing or cooked with tomatoes, green peppers, onions, etc |
| [C17: via French and Spanish probably from Portuguese crioulo slave born in one's household, person of European ancestry born in the colonies, probably from criar to bring up, from Latin creāre to | |
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Word Origin & History
creole
1604, from Fr. creole, from Sp. criollo "person native to a locality," from Port. crioulo, dim. of cria "person (especially a servant) raised in one's house," from criar "to raise or bring up," from L. creare "to produce, create." The exact sense varies with local use. Originally with no connotation
EXPAND of color or race; Fowler (1926) writes: "Creole does not imply mixture of race, but denotes a person either of European or (now rarely) of negro descent born and naturalized in certain West Indian and American countries."
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