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déboulé
[< Cdn F < F débouler roll down]
Obs.
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n.
a rock slide; avalanche.
Quotations
1806
In these last courses is a large Deboulle on right. . . .
1824
These Deboules, Avalanches are very common here abouts. . . . The Word Deboulé [is] a common term in this Country . . . the meaning of the word is any part or portion of a Mountain or Bank of Rock Earth, Snow Stone &c tumbled down. . . .
1904
. . . the Babines . . . were in the habit of trading . . . with their own congeners of what was then called the Fallen Rock--now Ackwilgate or Rocher Deboulé. . . .