Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles
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bourdigneau
Definitions
See 1950 quote.
bourdigneau
[< Cdn F]
Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
See 1950 quote.
See:
bourdion
,
ice-bank
Quotations
1859
. . . how happy I was when I lay down and slept again, instead of clambering over the rugged bourdigneaux!
1950
The voyageurs used the term
bourdigneaux
for the perpendicular ridges of ice along rivers.