bois rouge

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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a shrub, Cornus stolonifera, with conspicuous red stems, the inner bark of which was often used in the making of kinnikinik (def. 1).

Quotations

1766-8

About all the great lakes is found a kind of willow, termed by the French, bois rouge, in English red wood.

1860

. . . then, a light red willow, called "bois rouge". . . .