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noun
The historical and, by some accounts, current dysfunctional relationship between the Anglophone and Francophone groups in Canada, characterized by poor communication and mutual exclusion.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada, plural, plural-only
Qualifier: social criticism
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
First used by German poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) and applied to Canadian society in the title of a 1945 novel by Canadian author Hugh MacLennan.
