Creole
(2 syl.). A descendant of white people born in Mexico, South
America, and the West Indies. (Spanish criado, a servant;
diminutive criadillo, contracted into creollo, creole.) (See Mulatto.)
Creole dialects.
The various jargons spoken by the West India slaves.
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