DCHP-3

coulee

[< Cdn F coulée]
Prairies
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n.

See 1962 quote.

Quotations

1804
At sunset removed a little higher upon the coulee to a better place for the feeding of our horses, where we kept them tied to pickets all night.
1857
At sunset they fell upon the young Crees, surrounded them in the Coulee in which the men encamped, and killed 17 of them on the spot. . . .
1962
The dry bed of a stream when deep is a "gulch" or "coulee," its inclined sides distinguishing it from a canyon, the sides of which are perpendicular.
2n.

See quote.

Quotations

<i>c</i>1902
On the high rolling plains, hostiles could be descried at a distance, coming over the horizon head and top first like the peak of a sail, or emerging from the "coolies"--dried sloughs--like wolves from the earth.