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Acadian adj. Of or pertaining to Acadia, or Nova Scotia. "Acadian farmers."

Acadian epoch (Geol.), an epoch at the beginning of the American paleozoic time, and including the oldest American rocks known to be fossiliferous. See Geology.

Acadian owl (Zool.), a small North American owl (Nyctule Acadica); the saw-whet.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Acadian" Quotes from Famous Books

... to the two Acadian portraits. These are literal ambrotypes, to which Sarony has added a few touches of his artistic crayon. It may interest the reader to know that these are the first, the only likenesses of the real Evangelines of Acadia. The women of Chezzetcook ...

— Acadia - or, A Month with the Blue Noses • Frederic S. Cozzens

... stands the forest primeval; but under the shade of its branches Dwells another race, with other customs and language. Only along the shore of the mournful and misty Atlantic Linger a few Acadian peasants, whose fathers from exile Wandered back to their native land to die in ...

— The Book of the Epic • Helene A. Guerber

... The Acadian men were commonly drest in a sort of coarse black stuff made in the country; and many of the poorer sort go bare-footed in all weathers. The women are covered with a cloak, and all their head-dress is generally a handkerchief, which would ...

— An Account Of The Customs And Manners Of The Micmakis And Maricheets Savage Nations, Now Dependent On The Government Of Cape-Breton • Antoine Simon Maillard

Words linked to "Acadian" : Cajun, French Canadian