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‖ Québecois, n. and a.|kebɛkwa|
Also Québecquois.
[Fr., f. Quebec.]
A. n.
a. A native or inhabitant of the city or province of Quebec, esp. one who is a French-Canadian.
b. The French spoken in Quebec.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to Quebec or its inhabitants.
1873J. M. LeMoine Maple Leaves 171 The County and town of Joliette preserve the name of another distinguished Canadian, a Québecquois, Louis Joliette. 1954T. H. Raddall Muster of Arms 135 She was speaking in English but the mind behind the tongue was Quebecois. 1960Times 21 Nov. (Canada Suppl.) p. ii/7 Mr. Dorion is the most typically Quebecois of the French-Canadian ministers. 1962Maclean's Mag. 17 Nov. 4/1 Editors of French language newspapers who had wailed about the ‘stupidity’ of rural Québecois in the last federal election. 1963Ibid. 6 Apr. 23/1 Her French sounds more Parisian than what we who don't speak French well call Quebecois. 1970Globe Mag. (Toronto) 26 Sept. 17/1 The manuscripts of Pauline Archange is a first-person story of a Quebecois slum child. 1974Times Lit. Suppl. 14 June 634/2 Her little book assembles..comments by prominent Québécois. Ibid. 634/3 M Étheir-Blais is a Franco-Ontarian, not a Québécois. 1977H. Giles Lang., Ethnicity & Intergroup Relations 2 Québécois air controllers engaged in industrial action for a refusal at their not being allowed to use French as a medium of air communications. 1977Listener 23 June 808/2 The beleaguered English-speaking Québécois. 1978Maledicta II. 61 For the most part, Québecois imprecations flourished on the spot in response to the needs of a people living in conditions of moral and material misery. |