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Acadie
Archaic or Poetic.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
See: Acadia
Quotations
1630
The King of France by his commissione, doeth assure to himself all that part of America which lyeth eleuatione from the fortie to sixty degree, whereby he doeth incluid the River of Canada, all Acady, which incluids all New England and New Scotland, theas lying in lethe by the sea coast some xix hundrithe myllis.
1934
They sent a force over the sea from France and one over the land from Quebec, to regain the fortress and at the same time to take all Acadie.