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Creʹole (2 syl.)

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A descendant of white people born in Mexico, South America, and the West Indies. (Spanish criado, a servant; diminutive criadillo, contracted into creollo, creole.) (See Mulatto.)

Creole dialects. The various jargons spoken by the West India slaves.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Create. Make
Creature (The)
Creature-comforts
Credat Judæus or Credat Judæus Apella
Credence Table
Crédit Fonoier (French)
Crédit Mobilier (French)
Crekenpit
Cremona
Cremonas
Creole
Crepidam
Crescent
Crescent City (The)
Crescit
Cresselle
Cresset
Cressida
Cresswell (Madame)
Cressy (Battle of)
Crestfallen

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