brulé
noun
(in the Pacific Northwest) an area of forest destroyed by fire.
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brulé
1 American
[broo-lay, broo-lee, br y -lay]
/ bruˈleɪ, ˈbru li, brüˈleɪ /
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brulée
noun
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brulés
plural
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(in the Pacific Northwest) an area of forest destroyed by fire.
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Canadian. land covered with rocks or scrub growth.
Brulé
2
American
[broo-lay]
/ bruˈleɪ /
noun
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Brulés,
plural
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Brulé
plural
Brule
British
/ bruːˈleɪ /
noun
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Etymology
Origin of brulé
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 Horace Kephart
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
The highway from Brulé River to the St. Croix became known as Duluth's Portage.
From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Herbert Eugene Bolton
Although the settlers had not been on the Brulé long enough to vote, office seekers kept coming through, asking the indorsement of The Wand.
From Land of the Burnt Thigh by Stephen J. Voorhies
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 northern part of the county is drained by the tributaries of St. Louis river and Lake Superior, the principal streams being the Nemadji, Middle and Brule rivers.
From Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes by William Henry Carman Folsom
As Bob Scott had predicted, the Brulés had burned the ranch and craftily scattered the moment they reached the sand-hills.
From The Mountain Divide by Armand Both
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 C. B. Cox
Joe Two-Hawk had come as a sort of emissary from the Brulés.
From Land of the Burnt Thigh by Stephen J. Voorhies
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 Stephen J. Voorhies
When the Brulés attacked the Ponkas, in 1872, they stood on the bluff and threw up dust.
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 Marcus L. Hansen
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 John M'lean
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