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Canadien
[< Cdn F]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
This term is largely a spelling device used in printed matter to specify French Canadians as opposed to other Canadians; the form is often italicized.
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a French-speaking Canadian.
Quotations
1811
Several of his friends carried flags and hat-bands, with the appropriate motto, Stuart le vrai Canadien.
1832
[He] justly remarks that the Canadiens have good grounds for complaining.
1922
He has once and for all destroyed the popular impression of the Canadien as an amusing individual, speaking hybrid language. . . .
1964
Then the chances that Shiner and Canadien would be fighting on the street . . . were good indeed.