bois brûlé
Canadian Older Use. Métis (def. 1).
Origin of bois brûlé
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How to use bois brûlé in a sentence
Just then a piece of white, newly-tanned deerskin was hoisted up in the center of the bois brule encampment.
Indian Boyhood | [AKA Ohiyesa], Charles A. EastmanThe Bois Brule and Ami, as he called the bear, soon became necessary to one another.
Old Indian Days | [AKA Ohiyesa], Charles A. EastmanA dog-team and a bois-brule bring them, and then I am alone as before.
Romany of the Snows | Gilbert ParkerThe Bois Brule was treated with kindness and honor, and the tribe gave him a wife.
Old Indian Days | [AKA Ohiyesa], Charles A. Eastman
British Dictionary definitions for bois-brûlé
/ (ˌbwɑːbruːˈleɪ) /
(sometimes capital) Canadian archaic a mixed-race person of Canadian Indian and White (usually French Canadian) ancestry; Métis: Also called: Brule
Origin of bois-brûlé
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