Louisiana's French patois

Usage examples of creole.

Night, and beneath star-blazoned summer skies Behold the Spirit of the musky South, A creole with still-burning, languid eyes, Voluptuous limbs and incense-breathing mouth: Swathed in spun gauze is she, From fibres of her own anana tree.

Creole French that she always used in her ceremonies, rather than the anglicized patois of his followers.

They looked like the portraits in the hotel lobby of famous antebellum Creoles, descendants of the early French and Spanish settlers in Louisiana.

Into the turbulent hotbed of Asuncion fell Antequera, one of those Creoles of Peru who, born with talent and well educated, seemed, either from the circumstances of their birth or the surroundings amongst which they passed their youth, to differ as entirely from the Spaniards as if they had been Indians and not Creoles of white blood.

Masion shares a Mid-City Creole apartment with the sweetest tempered Birman in the world.

Creole ladies generally reserved for drunken keelboat men sleeping in their own vomit in the gutters of the Rue Bourbon.

Eastwood was a tyrant, but his two Creole cooks were wonderfully nice men, and Emma, the plump Irishwoman who ran the kitchen, had a way with her that somehow made working tolerable.

Quicherno hero Tecun Uman and Creole heroes Orellana, Barrios, Granados.

Like most New Orleanian Creoles, they clung ferociously to their French heritage and to the culture that was the last remaining tie to the prewar life they had once known.

There were market boats moored along the levee of the river, come to bring fish and shellfish, venison, rabbits, squirrel, raccoons, opossums, and robins, black birds, pigeons, and the small plovers called papabottes, known for their aphrodisiac qualities among Creole gentlemen, plus vegetables tied in bundles or heaped in baskets, and exotic fruits from the West Indies.

They chatted in Spanish, French, Creole, Russian, Tagalog, Hawaiian, and for my benefit, English.

In a flash, the five men started thrashing out a zydeco tune complete with lyrics sung in Creole French.

CHAPTER 2 New Orleans--Society-- Creoles and Quadroons Voyage up the Mississippi On first touching the soil of a new land, of a new continent, of a new world, it is impossible not to feel considerable excitement and deep interest in almost every object that meets us.

Injuns, and Spanards, and Creoles, and pretty girls, and old wimmen, and puckers, and gethers, and bracelets, and diamonds, and lace, and parasols.

To cap it all our troops, backwoodsmen and Creole militia, paraded in line on the common, and fired a salute in their honor.