Meaning & use
Cajun
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Relating to the Cajun people of Louisiana, descendants of French-speaking Acadian settlers, or to their distinctive language, food, and music.
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The restaurant is famous for its spicy Cajun seafood dishes.
The band played traditional Cajun music with fiddles and accordions.
A note on using this word
Almost always capitalized; refers specifically to the culture and French dialect of Acadian descendants who settled in Louisiana.
Another way to use it
2. noun
A person belonging to the Cajun ethnic group of Louisiana.
Her grandmother, a Cajun from rural Louisiana, still speaks the French dialect at home.
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