单词 | bois brûlé |
释义 | bois brûlén. North American. An American Indian of mixed descent, esp. one of French and Indian extraction. In popular use corrupted into bob ruly. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [noun] > person white and Amerindian mestizo1598 topass1680 half-breed1760 Paulist1772 bois brûlé1805 mameluco1809 metis1816 Paulista1817 mestino1842 ladino1877 redbone1890 mestizaje1943 cholo1959 1805 Lewis in Deb. Congress 1047 The Tetons Bois brûlè killed and took about 60 of them last summer. 1840 C. 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. 1878 J. H. Beadle Western Wilds xxix. 380 Most of the drivers were of the pure Bois Brules stock. 1881 Amer. Naturalist 15 123 Buffalo make good tractable work cattle when caught young, and the Bois Brules frequently use them as such. 1960 Press (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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1805 |
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