brulé
noun
(in the Pacific Northwest) an area of forest destroyed by fire.
Brulés
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pluralof Brulé.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
brulés
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pluralof brulé.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
brulénoun(in the Pacific Northwest) an area of forest destroyed by fire.
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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 C. B. Cox
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
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
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
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
