Quick links
barachois
[< Cdn F < F barachoix sand bar]
Atlantic Provinces.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
This entry may contain outdated or offensive information, terms, and examples.
1n.
See 1760 quote.
Quotations
1760
They give the name barachois in this country to small ponds near the sea, from which they are separated only by a kind of causeway.
1869
On the morning of July I , a large party, which left the town and approached the Barachois, were attacked by Wolfe with a corps of Light Infantry, and driven back into the town.
1962
Such matters as the anglicization of French names, whereby . . . Barachois becomes . . . Barrasway . . . suggest further possibilities of enquiry for the . . . linguist.
2n.
a narrow strip of sand or gravel rising above the surface of the adjacent water; causeway.
Quotations
1964
At Stephenville Crossing, we turned due west to a blob of land connected to Newfoundland only by a barachois of gravel.