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nouna Louisianian descended from Acadian immigrants from Nova Scotia (`Cajun' comes from `Acadian')type of:
Definition that contains cajun
- cajun a Louisianian descended from Acadian immigrants from Nova Scotia (`Cajun' comes from `Acadian')
- nova scotia the Canadian province in the Maritimes consisting of the Nova Scotia peninsula and Cape Breton Island; French settlers who called the area Acadia were exiled to Louisiana by the British in the 1750s and their descendants are know as Cajuns