brulé

[< Cdn F brûlé, brûlis]

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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brûlé, brule

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1n.

an area that has been burnt out by a forest fire, characterized by charred stumps and rampikes.

1793

This brulé came to the water's edge about two miles below the bank above mentioned.

1824

Got out of the new burnt Ground & into an old Brule. . . .

1873

Thick with brulé and tangled forest lay the base of the mountain [...]

1965

I had to cross a stretch of brulé. . . .

2n. — Hist.

a tract of new land cleared by burning (def. 1) during the early days of settlement.

See: burning(def. 1),burnt land(s)(def. 2)

1901

For while in spring and summer they farmed their narrow fields, and rescued new lands from the brûle [...]

1942

"It would be better if those stumps were cleared out of the brulé," she considered.