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   Creole

   /ˈkriːəʊl/

   noun

   • 1. a person of mixed European and black descent, especially in the Caribbean.
   • ▪ a descendant of Spanish or other European settlers in the Caribbean or Central or South America.
   • ▪ a white descendant of French settlers in Louisiana and other parts of the southern US.
   • 2. a mother tongue formed from the contact of a European language (especially English, French, Spanish, or Portuguese) with local languages (especially African languages spoken by slaves in the West Indies): "a Portuguese-based Creole"

   adjective

   • 1. relating to a Creole or Creoles: "a restaurant serving both international and Creole cuisine"

   Word Origin from French créole, criole, from Spanish criollo, probably from Portuguese crioulo ‘black person born in Brazil’, from criar ‘to breed’, from Latin creare ‘produce, create’.

   Scrabble Points: 8

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