Word Finder - creole

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A descendant of white European settlers who is born in a colonized country.

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Anyone with mixed ancestry born in a country colonized by white Europeans, now especially one who speaks a creole language.

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Someone of black African descent who is born in the Caribbean or Americas (originally as opposed to an African immigrant).

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A native-born of Francophone descent in the Louisiana territory of any race, as opposed to Anglo-American and Acadian settlers.

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A lect formed from two or more languages which has developed from a pidgin to become a first language.

The Creole population increased and was steadily recruited from home.

The chief was the Creole jealousy of the Spanish immigrants.

The Creole class is, however, diminishing, though slowly, and the most numerous section of the population is of Indian blood.

The Creoles (Criallos) or American-born Spaniards had for long been aggrieved at being shut out from all important official positions, and at the restrictions placed upon their trade, but the bulk of the Creole population was not disloyal.

The population of European blood, which calls itself Creole, is greater than that of any other tropical colony; many of the inhabitants trace their descent from ancient French families, and the higher and middle classes are distinguished for their intellectual culture.

The abortive insurrection of 1780-82, led by the Inca Tupac Amarti, was never a general rising, and was directed rather against Creole tyranny than against Spanish rule.

He showed the same merciless spirit in dealing with the Cubans; and he certainly cleared two-thirds of the island of Creole bands, and stamped out disaffection.

But his measures speedily gave dissatisfaction to the Argentine or Creole party, who had long chafed under the disabilities of Spanish rule, and who now felt themselves no longer bound by ties of loyalty to a country which was in the possession of the French armies.

His attitude in the so-called "Creole Case" attracted particular attention.

Puerto Principe boasts of being the most Creole of Cuban cities.

The superstratum is the prestigious language influencing the emerging Creole from above, especially with regard to vocabulary.

They introduced the contradanza criolla, a Creole version of the contredanse containing African elements in its instrumentation and interpretation.

Creole cooking is more European and urban inspired.

Some children who speak the Creole may also speak other languages.

Creole object are largely synonymous.

Although similar, cajun and creole are not quite the same food.

New Orleans is the center of Creole cooking with influences from France, Spain, Africa, the Caribbean, and America.

Most Cajun sauces are brown (notable exception, sauce piquant); Creole sauces tend to be red.

A staple of Louisiana cooking, crab Creole shrimp is a delightful dinner and very easy to make.

Creole cooking is a native Louisiana cuisine.

As you explore Creole cooking, you will discover a wide variety of foods including seafood.

Creole cooking also tends to be a bit spicy, so when cooking crab Creole shrimp, you will need cayenne pepper.

But they differ in the fact that Cajun cooking is based on French provincial cooking while Creole cooking is based on classical style cooking.

So with Creole, you will use a lot of classical cooking methods.

For example, many of the sauces used in Creole cooking are based on the sauces found in classic cooking.

There are some differences between classical cooking and Creole cooking.

It offers day cruises from New Orleans, plus evening cruises which feature Creole cuisine and live music.

Ettoufee, gumbo, seafood, barbeque, Creole dishes, cobblers, and pies are popular treats.

You can also expect regional cuisine, often a Creole buffet.

See how French, Creole, and Cajun influences work together to create this charming and eclectic place.

Add additional seasons to the turkey as desired, such as sage, rosemary, or Creole seasoning.

Cajun, Creole and Zydeco borrowed French music traditions and mixed them with African and Caribbean music influences.

He was then cleansed and re-clothed, his room cleaned, and during the day he was visited by his new attendant, a creole and a compatriot of Josephine de Beauharnais, named Jean Jacques Christophe Laurent (1770--1807), who had from the 8th of November onwards assistance for his charge from a man named Gomin.

There is no doubt that the men who led the Creole opposition contemplated independence, and this gives the incident peculiar interest.

Perhaps a closer approximation would be to rate the creole element (whites of European descent) at 10%, as in Colombia, and the mixed races at 70%, the remainder consisting of Africans, Indians and resident foreigners.

In 1841 some slaves who were being carried in the brig "Creole" from Hampton Roads, Virginia, to New Orleans, revolted, killed the captain, gained possession of the vessel, and soon afterwards entered the British port of Nassau.

He entered the colonial army of Spain as a cadet in 1810, and served as one of the Creole supporters of the Spanish government till 1821.

But there were about a dozen intermediate " named varieties," of which the salto-atras (tending away from white) and tente en l'aire (tending towards white) may be mentioned; and many of the last named eventually passed into the Creole class, sometimes by the decree of a court.

The Indo-Mauritians are now dominant in commercial, agricultural and domestic callings, and much town and agricultural land has been transferred from the Creole planters to Indians and Chinese.

There were in addition several epidemics of small-pox and plague, and from about 1880 onward the continual decline in the price of sugar seriously affected the islanders, especially the Creole population.

White men, who take proper precautions, and are not chronically soaked with cane-spirit, stand the climate perfectly, but the creole whites are still too much caballeros to devote themselves to agricultural work.

They speak a rude creole patois, based on French but with a large admixture of Indian, Bantu and English words.

Creole cooking is highly recommended.

Creole dogs, he concluded, were not only ugly, but they had also unlearned how to bark.

Cable, The Creoles of Louisiana (New York, 1884), and his later writings; but Mr Cable's views of the Creoles are very unpopular in Louisiana; for other views of them, and for a guide to the English and Creole literature of Louisiana, consult Alcee Fortier, Louisiana Studies - Literature, Customs and Dialects, History and Education (New Orleans, 1894).

The two next viceroys were incompetent; further demands from the Spanish authorities in revolt against Joseph Bonaparte increased the disaffection, which was not allayed by the grant of representation in the Spanish Cortes to the colonies; and, on the demands being repeated by a third viceroy, Venegas, Creole conspiracies arose in Queretaro and Guanajato.

For example, classical cooking sauces and soups will use a mirepoix of onions, carrots, and celery while most sauces and soups in Creole cooking will use a mirepoix of onions, celery, and bell peppers.

Creole sauce is a small sauce based on the tomato mother sauce.

This is a basic Creole sauce that you can use when cooking crab Creole shrimp or any other Creole style food.

Creole cooking has a rich history of flavorful dishes.