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Creole [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In the West Indies and Spanish America, a native of those countries descended from European ancestors.

Creole [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of or pertaining to a Creole or the Creoles.

Creole [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One born of European parents in the American colonies of France or Spain or in the States which were once such colonies, esp. a person of French or Spanish descent, who is a native inhabitant of Louisiana, or one of the States adjoining, bordering on the Gulf of of Mexico.

Creole Encyclopedia Britannica

CREOLE (Spanish, Criollo), is a term which primarily was used to denote an inhabitant of the Spanish colonies who was descended from the European settlers, as distinguished from the aborigines, the negroes, and mulattoes. It is now more loosely employed, the name being frequently applied to a native of the West Indies, whose descent is partly but not entirely European. A part of the coloured population of Cuba are at times designated creole negroes, in contradistinction to those who were brought direct from Africa. The creole whites, owing to the enervating influence of the climate, are not a robust race, but exhibit an elegance of gait and a suppleness of joint that are rare among Europeans.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 6, p. 567
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Creolean [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Creolian