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Anglais, n. Canad.
Brit. |ˈɑːŋgleɪ|, |ˈɒŋglɛɪ|, U.S. |ɔŋˈgleɪ|, Canad. |ɒŋˈglei|
Plural unchanged
Forms: 18 Anglois, 19– Anglais; Also with lower-case initial.
[‹ Canadian French anglais, † anglois a Canadian of British descent, transferred use of French anglais, † anglois an Englishman (12th cent. as adjective) > n.3) + -ais -ese suffix.]
Chiefly among French Canadians: (originally) a Canadian of British descent; (now chiefly) a Canadian whose first language is English.
1833Canad. Courant (Montreal) 2 Jan. 2/5 The British Canadians are..upheld by our ‘Cicero's’ as ‘office seekers’, ‘growlers’, ‘monopolists’, and many other equally applicable epithets are attached to the poor Anglois. 1938Winnipeg Free Press 24 June 1/3 My fragmentary French pleased him... An ‘Anglais’ from the outside world who could talk with him—that was an event in his pub. 1953A. R. M. Lower Unconventional Voy. xviii. 139 The men in the service station were obliging, but how could the anglais talk technical motor terms in French? 1993Cottage Life (Toronto, Ont.) June 44/1 The real estate agent had told us we were the only anglais on the three lakes in the area, and we were curious to see how our venture into Québec-style cottaging would work out. 2001Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 29 Nov. a19, I was and am, I regret to say, a unilingual Anglais, hardly a prime candidate to be suspected as a member of the Front de liberation du Quebec. |