Cajan
Americannoun
plural
Cajans,plural
Cajan-
a member of a group of people living in parts of the South, especially Alabama, whose ancestry is a mixture of white, Black, and possibly Indian.
Etymology
Origin of Cajan
Example Sentences
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Tomas Suchanek made 22 saves in the first two periods, and Pavel Cajan stopped eight shots in the third.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 19, 2022
The Cajan crew rowed up to where Milt Rogers and Crump and the black deckhand were watching by a pool.
From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 by Marshall, Edison
Tedge remembered that girl—a Cajan girl whom he once heard singing in the floating gardens while Tedge was battling and cursing to pass the blockade.
From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 by Marshall, Edison
According to the Louisiana dialect Longfellow's "Evangeline" was a Cajan, the word being a corruption of "Acadian."
From American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' by Morgan, Wallace
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