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

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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Creole \Cre"ole\ (kr?"?l), a.
   Of or pertaining to a Creole or the Creoles.
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   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.
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