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bois de vache
[< Cdn F, literally "cow wood"]
Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Spelling variants:bois de vaches
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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dry buffalo dung used as fuel.
Quotations
1858
We kindled a fire with bois de vache, of which there was a vast quantity strewn over the plain. . . .
1963
In the pre-railway days every traveller on the plains used bois des vaches (buffalo droppings) as fuel, filling it into sacks whenever they found it. . . .