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plural creoles
(linguistics) A language formed from two or more languages which has developed from a pidgin to become a first language. quotations examples
There are three orders of people: those who were alive when the French possessed the island: they understand the good French; those who were born in the heat of the Revolution, and who have arrived at maturity without instruction, these speak only Creole […]
1818, The Methodist Magazine, page 317
From the point of view of syntactic analysis, I have shown how transformational theory may be applied to the syntax of a Creole language.
1966, Beryl Loftman Bailey, Jamaican Creole Syntax, page 144
Alternative letter-case form of Creole (“person born in a colony”) examples
a style of hoop earrings that comprise of a hoop that has an inconsistent thickness and/or is elongated in shape examples