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trans. of Cdn F folle avoine

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See wild rice 1963 quote.

See: wild rice

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1744

All around its Banks, in the shallow Water and Marshes, grows a kind of wild Oat, of the Nature of Rice; the outward Husk is black, but the Grain within is white and clear like Rice; this the Indians beat off into their Canoes, and use for Food.

1765

But Just in the Canoe track the Wilde Oates were so thick that the Indans Could scarse Git one of thare Small Canoes into it to Geather it. . . .

1933

Wild rice was ordinarily called "oats" or "wild oats" by traders and voyageurs.

1944

Such items as these appear in the accounts: "5 kegs of wild oats of Kam."