Creole

krē′ōl, n. and adj. strictly applied in the former Spanish, French, and Portuguese colonies of America, Africa, and the East Indies to natives of pure European blood ( sangre azul ), in opposition to immigrants themselves born in Europe, or to the offspring of mixed blood, as mulattoes, quadroons, Eurasians, .: ( U.S. ) applied only to the native French stock in Louisiana: a negro born in the West Indies—earlier Creō′lian . [Fr. créole —Sp. criollo , contr. of criadillo , 'a little nursling,' dim. of cria do — criar , lit. to create, also to bring up, to nurse—L. creāre .]