(in the Pacific Northwest) an area of forest destroyed by fire.
Canadian. land covered with rocks or scrub growth.
An Americanism dating back to 1785–95; from French: literally, “burnt,” past participle of brûler; see broil 1
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It was above the Fire-scald, a brulé or burnt-over space on the steep southern side of the ridge between Briar Knob and Laurel Top, overlooking the grisly slope of Killpeter.
From Our Southern Highlanders by Kephart, Horace
Brulé Lakota member Red Cormorant Woman was one of hundreds of Native American women who married French fur traders.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2022
Rachel Brulé, a political scientist at Boston University, studies women’s rights and political participation in India.
From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2022
So Brulé set out to figure out what it takes for women to assert the rights they have on paper.
From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2022
Then arose Spotted Tail, the head chief of the Brulé bands, and after Red Cloud, perhaps one of the most influential chiefs of the nation.
From Golden Face A Tale of the Wild West by Mitford, Bertram
Many Brulé settlers went back home and disposed of whatever property they had in order to make permanent improvements on their claims.
From Land of the Burnt Thigh by Voorhies, Stephen J.
The Minneapolis Star Tribune reported that the riders arrived in Mankato on Monday morning after setting out from Lower Brule, South Dakota.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 27, 2022
Brule County emergency manager Katheryn Benton told the Sioux Falls Argus Leader that planes were unable to land at Chamberlain at the time of the crash.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 1, 2019
Twelve people were onboard midday Saturday when the plane went down in rural Brule County en route from Chamberlain to Idaho, Brule County State’s Attorney Theresa Maule Rossow said.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 30, 2019
Brule County State’s Attorney Theresa Maule described the emergency responders as “heroic.”
From Fox News ● Nov. 30, 2019
The Indians engaged in this war are the Cheyennes, Ogallalas, and Brule Sioux.
From The Battle of Atlanta and Other Campaigns, Addresses, Etc. by Dodge, Grenville Mellen
A few of the Indian warriors and chiefs always would hate the whites, but the rank and file of the Brulés were enjoying the strange new life about them.
From Land of the Burnt Thigh by Voorhies, Stephen J.
There were Brulés there, young braves who longed for battle then and there, and who leaped to their gaunt ponies and shouted challenge and defiance, but Two Lance interposed.
From Under Fire by Cox, C. B.
Joe Two-Hawk had come as a sort of emissary from the Brulés.
From Land of the Burnt Thigh by Voorhies, Stephen J.
When the Brulés attacked the Ponkas, in 1872, they stood on the bluff and threw up dust.
They would lay the matter before the council fire of Sintogaliska,—he who had ruled the Brulés since first the white tents of the soldiers gleamed along the Platte—Sintogaliska who never lied.
From Under Fire by Cox, C. B.
There are no better horsemen in the world than the Red River "brulés;" and so long as the horse keeps on his legs, the rider sticks to him.
From Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume II. by M'lean, John
To hunt the buffalo freely, even on foreign soil, seemed to the bois brulés to be their natural right.
From Old Fort Snelling 1819-1858 by Hansen, Marcus L.
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