Orleanian

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• A New Orleanian can often be found celebrating Mardi Gras with friends and family.

• Journalist Lolis Eric Elie remarked that the whole world watched as New Orleanians and others from the Gulf Coast lost their homes.

  Academic text (2012)

• In 2005, when the hurricane of the century struck, people owned a lot more stuff than New Orleanians of the past did.

  Academic text (2006)

• Joining these vibrant cultural elements is another singular New Orleanian icon: the jazz funeral.

  Academic text (2012)

• Thompson is a New Orleanian who was wrongly convicted of armed robbery and murder.

  Academic text (2016)

• But I worry about my friends and neighbors, my fellow New Orleanians and Louisianians.

  Blog text (17)

• The biggest single impact on New Orleanians within the newly constructed $10 billion levee system was the lack of electricity.

  Blog text (18)

• During one of the playoff games, he was in town, and he found a bar where displaced New Orleanians gathered to watch and scream.

  Blog text (25)

• With power gone, New Orleanians rely on smartphones to communicate and get Internet access, and on battery-powered radios for news and music.

  Blog text (18)

• I don't know where the feeling comes from that funerals are festivals, but a lot of New Orleanians have it; it's like the jazz funeral that starts in tears and ends in a carnival.

  Fiction book (1997)

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• Slang

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A person from New Orleans who often comes from older working-class neighborhoods

is a neutral label for any person who lives in New Orleans

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