DCHP-2
Franco-Canadian ((n.)) Archaic DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a French-speaking descendant of the settlers of New France or Acadia; a Canadian of French ancestry.
See also: French Canadian (def. 1)
- 1841 It would wreak its vengeance upon every thing English in order to raise upon its ruins a monument to the vanity of the Franco-Canadians.
- 1881 . . . under the Constitutional Act of 1791, the Franco-Canadians were, if not quite satisfied, at least tranquil and submissive.
- 1841 It would wreak its vengeance upon every thing English in order to raise upon its ruins a monument to the vanity of the Franco-Canadians.