creole
克里奥尔语,克里奥尔人,克里奥尔,克里奥尔文
Definitions
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- : a person born in the West Indies or Spanish America but of European, usually Spanish, ancestry.
- : a person born in Louisiana but of usually French ancestry.
- : a person of mixed Black and European, especially French or Spanish, ancestry who speaks a creolized form of French or Spanish.
- : a creolized language; a pidgin that has become the native language of a speech community.Compare pidgin.
- : the creolized French language of the descendants of the original settlers of Louisiana.Compare Cajun.
- : Haitian Creole.
- : Archaic. a Black person born in the New World, as distinguished from one brought there from Africa.
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- : of, relating to, or characteristic of a Creole or Creoles.
- : Cooking. indicating a spicy sauce or dish made especially with tomatoes, peppers, onions, celery, and seasonings, and often served with rice.
- : bred or growing in a country, but of foreign origin, as an animal or plant.
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Examples
A Haitian community leader named John helps translate from Haitian Creole to Spanish while we sit in the home she’s made for herself in Little Haiti, a tiny village in the remote hills of Tijuana, Mexico.
While Remy and I talk, a father and his young son read through a children’s book and an Alice in Wonderland coloring book written in Haitian Creole.
She was going through a divorce, and was having a tough time finding work because she spoke solely Creole.
It was one of five separate Masses, including in Spanish, English, Haitian-Creole, and Italian.
The priest for the Creole ceremony was Father Marcel Saint Jean.
There was instead the very best and LaChanze proved how right it is that her name means “the Charmed One” in Creole.
The grilled langoustines and seafood gratin are out of this world, as is the locally flavored creole rice.
The most authentic Creole cooking is found in private homes.
The action was at first a little confusing to Edna, but she soon lent herself readily to the Creole's gentle caress.
You know that I come of tough fiber—of that old Creole race of Pontelliers that dry up and finally blow away.
On the arrival of the court many of the old Creole families hastened to the capital to greet their sovereigns.
The Creole cane takes the hill, and, though less productive, is supposed to yield sugar of a better quality.
Many of the Indian women have married the creole Portuguese; intermarriages between creole women and Indian men are more rare.