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chaudière
[< Cdn F]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
the churning, seething mass of white water at the foot of a cataract.
See: cauldron
Quotations
1632
[Sault de la Chaudière [is] on the river of the Algonquins, some eighteen feet high and descending among rocks with a great roar.]
1826
. . . a cow one morning tumbled into the little kettle, or Chaudiere, and came up again at Gox Point, ten miles down the river.
1927
. . . two fast riffles sprang out, one from each side of the canyon, and met in a boiling chaudière of wild white water.
1965
. . . the water had hollowed out a deep basin . . . which the Indians called Asticou (the boiler) and so it became known by the French translation, Chaudière.