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) -jan for 2. | 1. | a member of a group of people living in parts of the South, esp. Alabama, whose ancestry is a mixture of white, black, and possibly Indian. |
| 2. | Cajun. |
[key-juhn] | 1. | a member of a group of people with an enduring cultural tradition whose French Catholic ancestors established permanent communities in Louisiana and Maine after being expelled from Acadia in the late 18th century. |
| 2. | the French dialect of the Cajuns. |
| 3. | of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Cajuns, esp. those of Louisiana: Cajun cooking. |
| Ca·jan (kā'jən) n. & adj. Variant of Cajun. |
| Ca·jun also Ca·jan (kā'jən) n. A member of a group of people in southern Louisiana descended from French colonists exiled from Acadia in the 18th century. adj. Of or relating to the Cajuns or their culture. [Alteration of Acadian.] |