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French-Acadian ((n.)) 
n. a French-speaking settler in Acadia or one of his descendants, especially one who still speaks French.
- 1829 The French Acadians, who seldom formed a settlement except in the most advantageous situations, built a small fort at Sherbrooke, from the ruins of which were very lately dug up two iron guns, of old French manufacture.
- 1898 There is no denying the fact that in point of antiquity the French Acadians of the Maritime Provinces ante-date all the inhabitants of British origin.
- 1934 Canute was not the only one who commanded the waves, for these French Acadians said to the invading sea: "thus far shalt thou come and no further."
- 1829 The French Acadians, who seldom formed a settlement except in the most advantageous situations, built a small fort at Sherbrooke, from the ruins of which were very lately dug up two iron guns, of old French manufacture.