Canadienne is the French feminine form used to describe a woman who is French-Canadian, particularly from Quebec. It's both a demonym and a cultural identifier, carrying a sense of pride in francophone Canadian heritage. You'll also see it used in cultural and historical contexts to refer to the Canadienne breed of dairy cattle, a hardy heritage breed developed by French settlers in Quebec. In contemporary use, it most often refers to French-Canadian women or to that cattle breed.
As a proud Canadienne from Abitibi, she switched effortlessly between French and English depending on who she was talking to.
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(Canada) female French-Canadian.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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