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Cajan

[ key-juhn ]

noun

plural Cajans, (especially collectively) Cajan
  1. 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.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Cajan1

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Tomas Suchanek made 22 saves in the first two periods, and Pavel Cajan stopped eight shots in the third.

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With various Alabamian friends as guides he wandered over most of the State: through the Black Belt, studded with old plantations; the Red Hills, where the mountaineers still have no use for Ne groes or revenuers; the swampy Cajan country.

In India "Cajan" baskets are extensively made from the fronds of the Palmyra palm, Borassus flabelliformis, and this manufacture has been established in the Black Forest of Germany, where it is now an important and characteristic staple.

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According to the Louisiana dialect Longfellow's "Evangeline" was a Cajan, the word being a corruption of "Acadian."

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Between the dialect of the Louisiana Cajan and that of the French Canadian of Quebec and northern New York there is a strong resemblance; but the Creole negro language is a thing entirely apart, being made up, it is said, partly from French and partly from African word sounds, just as the "gulla" of the South Carolina coast is made up from African and English.

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