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▪ I. ‖ Cajan|keɪdʒən, ˈkɑːdʒan|
[a. Malay kāchang applied to various leguminous plants (Cajanus Lablab, Dolichos, Phaseolus, Soja, etc.).]
A genus of plants, Cajanus (family Leguminosæ), and esp. the species C. Indicus, a shrub native to the East Indies, but now naturalized in Africa, tropical America, and Polynesia, for the sake of the seeds or pulse, an esteemed article of food, called in India Dhal, Dhol, and Urhur, and in Jamaica Pigeon-peas, of which the No-eye pea and Congo pea are varieties.
1693Phil. Trans. XVII. 688 The Thora Paerou or Cajan-Tree, an arborescent Phaseolus or Laburnum, much cultivated at the Cape. 1885Yule Hobson-Jobson 109 The Cajan was introduced to America by the slave-traders from Africa.
▪ II. Cajan, Cajen, Cajian, Cajun etc.,
colloq. corruptions of Acadian a. and n. N. Amer.
1868Putnam's Mag. II. 54 Among them were..Cagians, the descendants of the old Acadians. 1878Hallberger's Illustr. Mag. 577 (Farmer), The Native Louisianian..and the Acadian, more universally known..as the Cajen. 1880Scribner's Monthly Jan. 383 Acadian—or rather its corruption ‘Cajun’, as they pronounce it—is regarded as implying contempt. 1885Outing (U.S.) Feb. 337/1 The Cajan fisherman will gladly teach you his art of catching trout. 1942T. H. Raddall His Majesty's Yankees 26 We'd pluck the French off their farms—off the fat red 'Cajun lands around Fundy Bay. 1959P. Capon Amongst those Missing 43 My father's a Cajun from New Orleans. |