2. Noun. (plural of creole) ¹
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Definition of Creoles
1. creole [n] - See also: creole
Lexicographical Neighbors of Creoles
Literary usage of Creoles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. St. Lucia: Historical, Statistical, and Descriptive by Henry Hegart Breen (1844)
"The whites are divided into creoles and Europeans : the creoles are subdivided
into natives of the island and West Indians ; and the Europeans into English ..."
2. The Book Buyer by Charles Scribner's Sons (1884)
"sumes in "The Creoles of Louisiana." Having presented us, in " Old Creole Days,"
with a bouquet oí flowers of romance, he now proceeds, as it were, ..."
3. The Youth's Companion, Or, An Historical Dictionary: Consisting of Articles by Ezra Sampson (1813)
"Creoles, whites and blacks, born in the West Indies. The white Creoles-are taller
than the Europeans, but not so robust. Distinguished for the suppleness of ..."
4. Our Arctic Province: Alaska and the Seal Islands by Henry Wood Elliott (1886)
"Those early Creoles, male and female, who mated, as they matured, with the native
males and females, in so doing caused all their offspring, long ago, ..."
5. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, George Walter Prothero, Sir Adolphus William Ward (1907)
"... mail-boats artl laden with ^ \J But the reform of government involved great
cost and much discontent among the Creoles; ..."
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