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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—C

Creole

(2 syl.). 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.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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