亚洲网紅露点

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Creole

[ kree-ohl ]

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 肠谤别路辞濒别. a person of mixed Black and European, especially French or Spanish, ancestry who speaks a creolized form of French or Spanish.
  4. Usually 肠谤别路辞濒别. creole language ( def ).
  5. the creolized French language of the descendants of the original settlers of Louisiana. Compare Cajun ( def 2 ).
  6. Usually 肠谤别路辞濒别. Archaic. a Black person born in the Americas, as distinguished from one brought there from Africa.


adjective

  1. Sometimes 肠谤别路辞濒别. relating to or characteristic of a Creole or Creoles.
  2. Usually 肠谤别路辞濒别. Cooking. indicating a spicy sauce or dish, especially one made with tomatoes, peppers, onions, celery, and seasonings, and often served with rice.
  3. Sometimes 肠谤别路辞濒别. bred or growing in a country, but of foreign origin, as an animal or plant.

Creole

1

/ 藞办谤颈藧蓹蕣濒 /

noun

  1. sometimes not capital in the Caribbean and Latin America
    1. a native-born person of European, esp Spanish, ancestry
    2. a native-born person of mixed European and African ancestry who speaks a French or Spanish creole
    3. a native-born Black person as distinguished from one brought from Africa
  2. (in Louisiana and other Gulf States of the US) a native-born person of French ancestry
  3. the creolized French spoken in Louisiana, esp in New Orleans
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or characteristic of any of these peoples
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

creole

2

/ 藞办谤颈藧蓹蕣濒 /

noun

  1. 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 Compare pidgin
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. denoting, relating to, or characteristic of creole
  2. (of a sauce or dish) containing or cooked with tomatoes, green peppers, onions, etc
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 丑补濒蹿-颁谤别路辞濒别 adjective
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of Creole1

First recorded in 1595鈥1605; from French, from Spanish criollo, from Portuguese crioulo 鈥渘ative,鈥 derivative of criar 鈥渢o bring up,鈥 from Latin 肠谤别腻谤别; create
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of Creole1

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 肠谤别腻谤别 to create
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Example Sentences

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The former schoolteacher's books focus heavily on the country's Creole/English dialect that weaves in many African words from Antiguans' ancestors.

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What she did not realise until years later was that the Creole word came directly from the English word "hurry up".

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Creole Green, the boy鈥檚 mother, could not be immediately reached for comment.

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The Seychellois are delighted by the "Old Creole", which includes more French words, she remembers from childhood.

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A light touch of herbs, some seasonings and a bright pop of fresh lemon juice, and you have a most brilliant concoction, a concoction that is now as much of a Creole classic as gumbo.

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