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Québécois (word)

Québécois (pronounced ; feminine: Québécoise (pronounced ), (fem.: ), or (fem.: ) is a word used primarily to refer to a French-speaking native or inhabitant of the Canadian province of Quebec. It can refer to French spoken in Quebec. It may also be used, with an upper or lower case initial, as an adjective relating to Quebec, or to the French culture of Quebec. A resident or native of Quebec is usually referred to in English as a Quebecer or Quebecker. In French, Québécois or Québécoise usually refers to any native or resident of Quebec. Its use became more prominent in the 1960s as French Canadians from Quebec increasingly self-identified as Québécois.

Québécois

(e) may refer to:

  • Someone who lives primarily in the Canadian province of Quebec
  • Someone related to the Canadian province of Quebec:
    • most often, a French-speaking native or inhabitant of Quebec;
    • any native or resident of Quebec; or
    • the French culture of Quebec
  • Quebec French, the variety of French spoken in Quebec
  • A native or inhabitant of the province's capital, Quebec City (rare in English)
  • Le Québécois, a newspaper based in Quebec City
  • Quebecois (ship), a freighter launched in 1963

Usage examples of "quebecois".

On undisclosed evidence, both metropolitan police and the RCMP sought one Jean Bonin, known as a violent Quebecois separatist.

It might have been better to risk a border crossing afoot into Montana or Washington, he thought, but increased border patrols and sensing devices had made that chancy, even for Quebecois, who had provoked those precautions.

Bernal Guerrero nor Chaim Mardor were on the flight, having driven the little van earlier with its fresh Quebecois supplies.

But as an agent for Quebecois artists, Rene Angelil was a part of the present.

One of my songs was regularly climbing to the top of the Quebecois charts.

French and Quebecois performers, including Charlebois, Diane Dufresne, and Julien Clerc.

For the rest of the Canadian public to listen to a Quebecois artist, a stroke of great luck or a miracle was required.

More so at that time than today, any Quebecois artist who wished to put on a show in English was getting him- or herself into a touchy, very delicate situation.

The newspapers in both cities wondered if the Quebecois public would accept me singing in English.

My statement implied that they were not Quebecois, even though they lived in Quebec.

I reached the podium, I said a few words in English and then spoke to the Quebecois in French with my native accent, the accent of my childhood.

These days, he used it almost all the time, and spoke it with a Quebecois accent, not the Parisian one he had of course learned in school.

I was as much a Quebecois as anybody whose umpty-great-grandfather fought alongside Montcalm on the Plains of Abraham.

The towns, from what he could see of them, lost their distinctively Quebecois look and began to resemble those of nearby New England.

The Quebecois farmer gestured to the macadamized road along which the wagon traveled.