1868, Cagian, dialectic pronunciation of Acadian, from Acadia, former French colony in what is now the Canadian Maritimes. Its French setters were dispersed and exiled by the English and thousands mad [..]

people of French-speaking ancestry native to the Gulf Coast region of the United States, mostly the coast of Louisiana.

A descendant of French settlers who came from the Acadia region of Canada, or present-day New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, to the United States. They settled in Louisiana in the swamps and slow-moving s [..]

Cooking influenced by southern U.S. and French cuisine.

Used in reference to people of French Acadian descent who were removed from their homeland of Nova Scotia by the British in the late 1700s. Cajun cooking has long been wrongly thought of as synonymous [..]

(n) a Louisianian descended from Acadian immigrants from Nova Scotia (`Cajun' comes from `Acadian')

See Acadians.

The term “Cajun” comes from the term “les Acadiens,” for the people who were exiled by the British from the “Acadie” area of Canada now known as Nova Scotia. “Les Acadiens” was sometimes shortened to [..]

(kay' jun) French Acadians who settled here after immigrating from Canada.