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Cree definition

Cree (krē)

noun

  1. pl. Crees or Cree a member of a North American Indian people living mainly in the Canadian Prairie Provinces
  2. the Algonquian language of this people

Etymology: Fr Cri, shortened < earlier Cristinaux < 17th-c. Algonquin kirishtinoo, name of a band of Cree Indians

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