New France
English
Etymology
new + France.Calque of French Nouvelle France.
Proper noun
New France
- (historical) France's former possessions and colonies in North America, including Canada (now Quebec and Ontario and Ohio plains), Acadia (now New Brunswick and Nova Scotia), and Louisiana (now the Mississippi plains), before 1763.
Translations
France's former possessions and colonies in North America
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References
- “New France” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.