creole

Adjective

• of or relating to or characteristic of native-born persons of French descent in Louisiana
  • Creole cooking
    

• of or relating to a language that arises from contact between two other languages and has features of both
  • Creole grammars
    

Noun

• a mother tongue that originates from contact between two languages

• a person descended from French ancestors in southern United States (especially Louisiana)

• a person of European descent born in the West Indies or Latin America