Quebecoisness

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A form of Québécois-ness — The quality of being Québécois.

Scrabble 26

Meanings

nounQuebecoisness (uncountable)
  1. alternativeuncountableAlternative spelling of Québécois-ness.

    Though a degree of quebecoisness had come, a unified pays had not yet come.

    2006, Elaine Keillor, quoting Stephen Thirlwall, “Gilles Vigneault”, in Music in Canada: Capturing Landscape and Diversity, Montreal, Que.; Kingston, Ont.; London; Ithaca: McGill-Queen’s University Press, →ISBN, page 308
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    Ferlinghetti wondered if the gathering “might be exaggerating Jack’s Quebecoisness too much,” and noted that one of the great problems for all immigrant Americans is “the fantastic speed” with which they lose their roots.

    1987 October 10, Kenneth McGoogan, “Kerouac Still on the Road”, in Calgary Herald, page F1

    So what do you think - full fluffy (celebrating her Quebecoisness), tightly trimmed ("Devil's Advocate"), or an Altair smoothie?

    2001 June 18, Uncle Al, “question on time travel”, in sci.physics (Usenet)

    Playing up his Quebecoisness should allow him to be a heel anywhere in the U.S. and English-speaking Canada.

    2006 June 19, Zombie Elvis, “Smackdown Slappings, 6/16”, in alt.pro-wrestling.wwe (Usenet)

    In this chapter, however, I do not propose to engage with the question of “Oedipal and masculinised reterritorialisations” that Marshall (7) raises in his text or that of the Canadianness or Quebecoisness of this series in comparison with the other comics that are serialized in the magazine Spirou.

    2018, Annick Pellegrin, “Vicky: Young, Rich, Popular, Sexy, Gay, and Unhappy”, in Dominick Grace, Eric Hoffman, editors, The Canadian Alternative: Cartoonists, Comics, and Graphic Novels from the North, Jackson, Miss.: University Press of Mississippi, part II (Alternative Worlds)
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