Creole

[ US /ˈkɹioʊɫ/ ]
[ UK /kɹɪˈə‍ʊl/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. of or relating to or characteristic of native-born persons of French descent in Louisiana
    Creole cooking
  2. of or relating to a language that arises from contact between two other languages and has features of both
    Creole grammars
NOUN
  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)
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How To Use Creole In A Sentence

  • Like many African families, these Creole families are matrifocal, centering on the mother's lineage, with strong traditions of women working outside of the home.
  • It wasn't until the early 19th century that Creoles in New Orleans began using tomatoes in gumbos and jambalayas.
  • However, such a shocking thing as violence is hardly hinted at, and the Princess always succeeds, as the Creole lady in _Newton Forster_ said she did with the pirates, in "temporising," while her abductors confine themselves for the most part to the finest "Phébus. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
  • It's certainly not built the way I would have gone about it something like interlingua but with more phonemic spelling and more creole like grammar but it gets the job done. Languagehat.com: REPRESSIVE ESPERANTO.
  • Trinidadians are said by Creoles to be ethnically ‘mixed-up’ like callaloo, a kind of soup made from dasheen leaves and containing crab.
  • Like the names of restaurant dishes here — "Creole cream-cheese cannoli with pistachios and satsuma sorbet" — the costumed performance feels like a seduction. New Orleans Done Over, Done Right
  • New hybrid languages, such as Creoles and pidgins, have been formed as a result of the modifications in languages that have been in contact.
  • He had limited creole support, but his call galvanized hundreds of peasants and mineworkers who had suffered oppressive conditions in the Bajío region. H. New Spain (Mexico)
  • Sierra LeoneEnglish (official, regular use limited to literate minority), Mende (principal vernacular in the south), Temne (principal vernacular in the north), Krio (English-based Creole, spoken by the descendants of freed Jamaican slaves who were settled in the Freetown area, a lingua franca and a first language for 10% of the population but understood by 95%) Languages
  • There are French pidgins and Creoles in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Indian and Pacific oceans.
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