Cajun-Creole

Cajun-Creole

English

Alternative forms

• Cajun Creole

Etymology

Cajun and Creole

Adjective

Cajun-Creole (comparative more Cajun-Creole, superlative most Cajun-Creole)

1. Of or pertaining to French Louisiana, the Cajun Country, or its people (inhabitants).
   • 1988, Decanter, Volume 13, Decanter Magazine Limited, page 84:

     David Wolfe visits a Cajun-Creole restaurant in London.

   • 1987, John Egerton, Ann Bleidt Egerton, Southern Food: At Home, on the Road, in History, Knopf, page 90:

     The Cajun-Creole coastal strip that extends for a hundred miles or so east and west of New Orleans - is like no other Southern precinct as a purveyor of fine foods.

   • 1987, John Egerton, Ann Bleidt Egerton, Southern Food: At Home, on the Road, in History, Knopf, page 362:

     An enternatining and taste-tempting treatment of Louisiana's reknowned cookery by the latest star of the Cajun-Creole sky.

Noun

Cajun-Creole (plural Cajun-Creoles)

1. A native or inhabitant of the Cajun Country, French Louisiana.
   • 1996, John Martellaro, Zagat Survey Staff, Zagat Survey, Zagat, 1997: Kansas City, Zagat Survey, page 46:

     "Ragin' Cajun" in Westport that's "highly recommended for a good time"; "the crawdaddy of them all" among local Cajun-Creoles.