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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A region of southern Louisiana settled by Acadians in the 1700s and now a center of Cajun culture.
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Examples
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The city was not for them, and they preferred the hunting and trapping land to the west, in the Atchafalaya River basin, they call it Acadiana, after their Canadian homeland.
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The murder of the black woman in Grand Coteau bore similarities to the homicides in Baton Rouge, except this was the first time the killer, if indeed the same perpetrator murdered all three women, had struck in the area we call Acadiana.
Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set James Lee Burke 2002
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The murder of the black woman in Grand Coteau bore similarities to the homicides in Baton Rouge, except this was the first time the killer, if indeed the same perpetrator murdered all three women, had struck in the area we call Acadiana.
Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set James Lee Burke 2002
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The 900-page book, published recently by University Press of Mississippi, inventories French vocabulary as spoken today in five key regions of "Acadiana" - the Francophone regions of contemporary Louisiana.
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Mr. BUCHANAN: Well, we went down to -- to Rayne, Louini -- Louisiana, and it's up beyond -- you go up through New Orleans, through Baton Rouge and over to -- over to Acadiana, which is where the Acadian folks and the Cajun folks are.
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Citron said state funding cuts to Second Harvest Food Bank of Greater New Orleans and Acadiana, which is 1 of FoodNet's suppliers, has led to depleted reserves.
unknown title 2009
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Citron said state funding cuts to Second Harvest Food Bank of Greater New Orleans and Acadiana, which is 1 of FoodNet's suppliers, has led to depleted reserves.
unknown title 2009
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Citron said state funding cuts to Second Harvest Food Bank of Greater New Orleans and Acadiana, which is 1 of FoodNet's suppliers, has led to depleted reserves.
unknown title 2009
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Lafayette is the physical and cultural center of a region of south Louisiana called Acadiana, for the French-speaking Acadians, or Cajuns, who settled here more than 200 years ago.
theadvertiser.com - 2009
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Lafayette is the physical and cultural center of a region of south Louisiana called Acadiana, for the French-speaking Acadians, or Cajuns, who settled here more than 200 years ago.
theadvertiser.com - 2009
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