Creole
noun
a person born in the West Indies or Spanish America but of European, usually Spanish, ancestry.
Creoles
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pluralof Creole.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Those Creoles don’t mess around with their potato salad.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2026
While people of any race can and have identified as Louisiana Creoles, many were multiracial thanks to the confluence of Native Americans, Africans and European immigrants concentrated in the state.
From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2022
“They educated the palate of people across this city with a true representation of what the cooking of Creoles of color means.”
From Washington Times ● Nov. 14, 2020
His paintings, faux naïf renderings of 19th-century life in the city — particularly the vanished culture of New Orleans’s free Creoles of color — also keep good company.
From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2020
There were only Creoles that summer at Lebrun’s.
From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin
