bois de vache
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of bois de vache
1835–45, < Prairie Canadian French: literally, buffalo wood ( vache buffalo, French: cow)
Example Sentences
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Last year’s signs of them were provokingly abundant; and wood being extremely scarce, we found an admirable substitute in the bois de vache, which burns exactly like peat, producing no unpleasant effects.
From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 by Charles Herbert Sylvester
The timber began to thin out too, and they were obliged to resort for their fire to the bois de vache, or buffalo-chips.
From The Great Salt Lake Trail by Henry Inman
It was the bois de vache, or buffalo “chips,” as it is called by the trappers; and they knew that where this was found, the buffaloes themselves would not be far off.
From The Boy Hunters by Unknown
Last year's signs of them were provokingly abundant; and wood being extremely scarce, we found an admirable substitute in bois de vache, which burns exactly like peat, producing no unpleasant effects.
From The Oregon Trail: sketches of prairie and Rocky-Mountain life by Francis Parkman
We saw, moreover, the bois de vache of the wild cattle.
From The Scalp Hunters by F.A. Stewart
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