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Canadien [< Cdn F] 
This term is largely a spelling device used in printed matter to specify French Canadians as opposed to other Canadians; the form is often italicized. 
n. a French-speaking Canadian.
- 1811 Several of his friends carried flags and hat-bands, with the appropriate motto, Stuart le vrai Canadien.
- 1832 [He] justly remarks that the Canadiens have good grounds for complaining.
- 1922 He has once and for all destroyed the popular impression of the Canadien as an amusing individual, speaking hybrid language. . . .
- 1964 Then the chances that Shiner and Canadien would be fighting on the street . . . were good indeed.
- 1811 Several of his friends carried flags and hat-bands, with the appropriate motto, Stuart le vrai Canadien.