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pure laine

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pure laine [pjʊə ˈlɛn]
n
(in Quebec) a person belonging to a long-established family of French descent
[French, literally: pure wool]


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WHERE I LIVE up in the north-eastern corner of North America, the term pure laine (literally translated as "pure wool") is used to describe someone who is born in Quebec, francophone (French-speaking), white and directly descended from French European stock.
FACT FILE Quebec nationalists often refer to themselves as la pure laine (the pure wool); a cultural and ethnic group descended from the original settlers of New France.
Did we not see ourselves in 1925 as the "pure" and continuing Presbyterians, much as we hear some Separatists speak of themselves as pure laine and continuing Quebecois?
 
 
 
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