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Examples
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Tedge remembered that girl -- a Cajan girl whom he once heard singing in the floating gardens while Tedge was battling and cursing to pass the blockade.
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He was a cowman and he couldn't swim; he had never seen anything but the dry ranges until he said he would go find the girl he had met once on the upper Brazos -- a girl who told him of sea and sunken forests, of islands of flowers drifting in lonely swamp lakes -- he had wanted to see that land, but mostly the Cajan girl of
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The pigeon pea (_Cytisus Cajan_), and a very valuable and prolific species of bean, called the Mauritius black bean (_Mucuna utilis_), growing even in the poorest soil, is cultivated in India and Ceylon.
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Cajan priest declared it to be, "as pure as the angels, as strong as the devil, and as hot as hell," combining the three qualities necessary to make coffee perfection.
My beloved South, Mrs. T. P. O 1914
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Longfellow's "Evangeline" was a Cajan, the word being a corruption of
American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' Julian Street 1913
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Similarly one hears of "Creole ponies" -- these being ponies of the small, strong type used by the Cajan farmers.
American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' Julian Street 1913
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Emile was light and graceful and dapper, and his ease and polish of manner made Edouard blush more than once because he despaired to himself of ever being more than a foolish country "Cajan."
Edouard 1911
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[Footnote 1: _Cajan_ is the local term for the plaited fronds of a coco-nut.]
Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon James Emerson Tennent 1836
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Genres include blues, funk, jazz, Cuban/salsa, classic rock, Cajan and tribute bands for U2 & The
PaloAltoOnline.com 2010
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Genres include blues, funk, jazz, Cuban/salsa, classic rock, Cajan and tribute bands for U2 & The
PaloAltoOnline.com 2010
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