| 释义 |
‖ bois brûlé N. Amer.|bwa bryle|
[Fr., ‘burnt wood’.]
An American Indian half-breed, esp. one of French and Indian extraction.
In popular use corrupted into bob ruly.
1805Lewis in Deb. Congress 1047 The Tetons Bois brûlè killed and took about 60 of them last summer. 1840C. F. Hoffman Greyslaer III. xiv. 260 Of Guisbert or Guise, as the ‘Bois-brulê’, or half-blood child was generally called, we have as yet been enabled to gather but few traditions. 1878J. H. Beadle Western Wilds xxix. 380 Most of the drivers were of the pure Bois Brules stock. 1960Press (Vancouver) Dec. 14 The result of the Bay proclamations was to provoke civil disobedience on the part of the boisbrules and active opposition by the Nor' westers. |