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‖ Canadien, n. and a.|kanadjæ̃|
fem. Canadienne |-jɛn|.
[Fr., = Canadian.]
A. n. A French Canadian. (Cf. quot. 1568 s.v. Canadian a. and n.)
B. adj. French-Canadian.
1832Vindicator (Montreal) 9 Mar. 2/5 [He] justly remarks that the Canadiens have good grounds for complaining. Ibid., No man who feels as a Briton ought to feel would have thus prostituted a Canadien press. 1863E. H. Walshe Cedar Creek 82 The aged Canadienne arose, with the politeness so natural to her Gallic descent, and bade them welcome. 1906Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 20 Jan. 8/1 (Advt.), This pretty Canadienne saved from terrible kidney disease by ‘Fruit-a-tives’. 1952D. Hoffman Paul Bunyan iv. 97 The idea persists that the origin of Paul Bunyan must be in Canadien folk tradition. 1958Times Lit. Suppl. 31 Jan. 55/3 Some of the most important married into important ‘Canadien’ families. 1960Guardian 5 Nov. 7/2 The ‘Canadiens’, the most self-centred, tenacious, clannish of minorities. 1963Western Weekly Suppl. 13 Mar. 6/1 Louis loved his horses..almost as much as he did his petite Canadienne wife. |