Creole

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Creole \Cre"ole\ (kr?"?l), a.
     Of or pertaining to a Creole or the Creoles.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Note: In New Orleans the word Creole is applied to any
           product, or variety of manufacture, peculiar to


           Louisiana; as, Creole ponies, chickens, cows, shoes,
           eggs, wagons, baskets, etc.
           [1913 Webster] Creolean

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Creole \Cre"ole\ (kr?"?l), n. [F. cr?ole, Sp. criollo, from an
     American negro word, perh. a corruption of a Sp. criadillo,
     dim. of criado servant, formerly also, child, fr. L. creatus,
     p. p. of creare to create. Cf. {Create}.]
     One born of European parents in the American colonies of
     France or Spain or in the States which were once such
     colonies, esp. a person of French or Spanish descent, who is
     a native inhabitant of Louisiana, or one of the States
     adjoining, bordering on the Gulf of of Mexico.
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     Note: "The term creole negro is employed in the English West
           Indies to distinguish the negroes born there from the
           Africans imported during the time of the slave trade.
           The application of this term to the colored people has
           led to an idea common in some parts of the United
           States, though wholly unfounded, that it implies an
           admixture greater or less of African blood." --R.
           Hildreth.
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     Note: "The title [Creole] did not first belong to the
           descendants of Spanish, but of French, settlers, But
           such a meaning implied a certain excellence of origin,
           and so came early to include any native of French or
           Spanish descent by either parent, whose nonalliance
           with the slave race entitled him to social rank. Later,
           the term was adopted by, not conceded to, the natives
           of mixed blood, and is still so used among themselves.
           . . . Besides French and Spanish, there are even, for
           convenience of speech, 'colored' Creoles; but there are
           no Italian, or Sicilian, nor any English, Scotch,
           Irish, or 'Yankee' Creoles, unless of parentage married
           into, and themselves thoroughly proselyted in, Creole
           society." --G. W. Cable.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Creole
       adj 1: of or relating to a language that arises from contact
              between two other languages and has features of both;
              "Creole grammars"
       2: of or relating to or characteristic of native-born persons
          of French descent in Louisiana; "Creole cooking"
       n 1: a person of European descent born in the West Indies or
            Latin America
       2: a person descended from French ancestors in southern United
          States (especially Louisiana)
       3: a mother tongue that originates from contact between two
          languages

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Creole, LA
    Zip code(s): 70632