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taureau Canad. Hist.|ˈtɒrəʊ|
Also † toreau. Pl. taureaux.
[a. Canad. Fr., a. Fr. taureau bull.]
A bag of buffalo-hide for carrying pemmican; also transf., the pemmican itself.
1794J. MacDonnell Jrnl. 14 Jan. in L. E. R. Masson Les Bourgeois de la Compagnie du Nord-Ouest (1889) I. 287, I cut 20 sacks or taureaux to put pemican in and gave them to Minie to sew. 1795― Jrnl. 28 Apr. in Ibid. 294 Started them for the Forks with 138 + 137 taureaux of pemican. 1807W. F. Wentzel Let. 27 Mar. in Ibid. 90 This is our staple article of provisions when travelling, it is called taureau or Pimecan. 1821G. Simpson Jrnl. Occurrences Athabasca Dept. (1938) 278 It may be well to have the Toreau in Store. 1890Trans. R. Soc. Canada VIII. ii. 104 A sack or ‘toreau’ of pemmican, as it was called, consisted of nearly equal quantities of tallow and dried meat. 1911K. Hughes Father Lacombe iii. 32 They pounded dried meat to powder in wooden bowls, mixing hot grease and dried berries with it, packing the whole into large sacks of buffalo-hide, called by the Metis—taureaux... This was pimik-kan, the manna of the Canadian prairies. 1927A. P. Woollacott Mackenzie & his Voyageurs 52 It [sc. pemmican] was a staple food among the fur-traders on long journeys, when..game could not be had. Also known as ‘taureaux’. 1931G. L. Nute Voyageur 213 The train wound its slow way back to Pembina laden with..228 taureaux, or leather bags of pemmican. 1951W. O'Meara Grand Portage xxiv. 139 The pemmican [had been] mixed and stored in shaggy taureaux. |