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- adjective Alternative form of
Creolean . - noun Alternative form of
Creolean .
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Examples
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The moment a nobleman returns from his travels, a Creolian arrives from Jamaica, or a dowager from her country seat, I strike for a subscription.
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The lady was a Creolian, the daughter of a planter in St. Domingo.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 263, Supplementary Number (1827) Various
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My Lord Trip, Bill Squash, the Creolian, and I sometimes make a party at being ridiculous; and so we say and do a thousand things for the joke.
English Satires Various 1885
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Negroes in St. Thomas drew up a letter to the King of Denmark, in the Creolian tongue, stating their distress to him in very natural expressions, and most pathetically entreating that they might not be prevented from becoming acquainted, through the ministry of the missionaries, with our Lord Jesus Christ, for their eternal salvation.
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The moment a nobleman returns from his travels, a Creolian arrives from Jamaica, or a dowager from a country-seat, I strike for a subscription.
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The moment a nobleman returns from his travels, a Creolian arrives from Jamaica, or a dowager from her country seat, I strike for a subscription.
The Vicar of Wakefield Oliver Goldsmith 1752
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But that I may not Jbe thought to over-rate the force of this fquadron, by afcribing to it a power of. overturning the Spanilh government in America, it is neceffary to obferve, that the conjunfture was the inoft favourable we could have defired: the Creolian fubjedts were difafFefted, their governors at variance; the country wretchedly unprovided with arms and
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