单词 | canadien |
释义 | Canadienn.adj. A. n. A French Canadian. Cf. Canadienne n. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of Canada > [noun] > French French Canadian1698 coureur de bois1700 Canadien1727 Acadian French1741 Canadian French1755 habitant1789 Frenchy1829 Canuck1835 pea soup1866 pea-souper1930 Joe1963 1727 C. Colden Hist. Five Indian Nations v. 98 Mons. Champigni marched..before the rest of the Army, with between two and three hundred Canadiens. 1759 J. Amherst Jrnl. 13 June (1931) 119 Two Battalions of Berry passed by.., and 500 Canadiens under the command of Monsr. LaCorne. 1832 Vindicator (Montreal) 9 Mar. 2/5 [He] justly remarks that the Canadiens have good grounds for complaining. 1924 J. C. Bracq Evol. French Canada xi. 191 They have been the heartfelt literature of the Canadien, even when he could not read. 1960 Guardian 5 Nov. 7/2 The ‘Canadiens’, the most self-centred, tenacious, clannish of minorities. 1993 Beaver Apr. 35/2 His second wife, Suzanne Gamelin, a Canadien and devout Roman Catholic, objected to his decision. 2014 D. Chapin Freshwater Passages vi. 120 Corry wrote of Cole and a Canadien named Bove. B. adj. French-Canadian. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of Canada > [adjective] > Canadian French1624 French Canadian1761 Canadien1832 Canadian French1835 pan-Canadian1929 1832 Vindicator (Montreal) 9 Mar. 2/5 No man who feels as a Briton ought to feel would have thus prostituted a Canadien press. 1894 Mod. Lang. Notes 9 69 By right of first settlement he styles himself canadien. 1940 A. Viton Great Brit.: Empire in Transition v. 110 All the French newspapers and political parties are strongly Canadien in character. 1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 31 Jan. 55/3 Some of the most important married into important ‘Canadien’ families. 1963 Western Weekly Suppl. 13 Mar. 6/1 Louis loved his horses..almost as much as he did his petite Canadienne wife. 1991 R. C. Harris & J. Warkentin Canada before Confederation vi. 245 The greater proportion of the personnel engaged in carrying goods and furs..were of Canadien..ancestry. 2015 J. L. Downey Bread of Strong i. 39 Rapid industrialization drew Quebeckers into the cities and irreparably damaged the traditional way of life that was the cornerstone of Canadien identity. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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