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l'Acadie
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n.
a former French colony on the Atlantic coast of N. America, which included the present Maritime Provinces and adjacent parts of Quebec and New England.
Quotations
1789
Anno 1604, Henry IV. of France made further discoveries in L'Acadia, now Nova Scotia. . . .
1961
This is your day across the land. The day of the southshore schoonerman, prairie wheatgrower, "l'Acadie" market gardener, "Spud Island" farmer. . . .