CREOLE

Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art · 1842 · p. 11

(In Spanish Criollo.) A name given to the descendants of whites bom in Mexico, South America, and the West Indies; in whom the European blood has been unmixed with that of other races. The various jargons spoken in the M'est India islands by slaves, . are called Creole dialects. CREOSOTE, or [s. 312]