creole (kreol)

and a. [= D. kreool = G. kreole = Dan. kreol, race. Many Spaniards of rank cast their lot with the Creoles [of Louisiana]. But the Creoles never became Spanish; and in society balls where the Creole civilian met the Spanish military official, the cotillon was French or Spanish according as one or the other party was the stronger. G. W. Cable, Creoles of Louisiana, xvi. (b) A native-born negro, as distinguished from a negro brought from Africa. II. a. 1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a creole or the creoles: as, creole songs; cre ole dialects. Among the people a transmutation was going on. French fathers were moving aside to make room for Creole sons. G. W. Cable, Creoles of Louisiana, v. 2. Of immediate West Indian growth, but of ultimate European or other foreign origin: as, creole chickens; creole roses. - Creole dialect, the broken English of the creoles of Louisiana and the neighboring region.- Creole negro, a negro born in a part of the West Indies or the United States now or originally Spanish or French. - Creole patois, the corrupt French spoken by the negroes and creole negroes of Louisiana. creole an (kre-ō'lē-an), a. [