单词 | brulé |
释义 | brulén. North American (regional). Now rare. 1. In Canada, esp. the north-west: an area of forest which has been destroyed or cleared by fire, typically characterized by charred tree stumps. Also as a mass noun. ΚΠ c1783 D. Jones Descr. Country above Carryo in D. Brymner Rep. Canad. Arch. 1890 (1891) p. xxviii Then comes a bruley which continues about Two Leagues in length... The soil in said bruley is clay. 1793 J. Macdonell Diary 8 June in C. M. Gates Five Fur Traders (1933) 77 At intervals through the pines we could see like a large clearing apparently made by fire and which the Canadians would call a Grand-Brulé. This brulé came to the water's edge. 1833 Chambers' Edinb. Jrnl. 15 June 160/2 This lot is here [sc. Quebec] called a Brule, a French term, but completely adopted here, meaning a place that has been burnt. 1871 G. L. Huyshe Red River Exped. iv. 51 From the appearance of these brûlés (burnt clearances)..it is evident that fires have ranged over the country for years past. 1886 A. H. Telfer Diary 2 Oct. in L. DiCorpo Worth travelling Miles to See (2004) 65 The land on this line are patches of brulie, and patches of timber, mostly spruce and tamarack. 1901 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 23 Oct. 3/4 A second conflagration..wiped out the second growth of black pine and spruce, and now the whole country is an immense brule. 1965 W. Kirkconnell Centennial Tales 36 The wrack of the storm that has ravaged our forests, Millions of acres of stumps and the puny new growth of the brûlé. 1974 D. Sears Lark in Clear Air 10 I heard an elderly country man refer to a burned-over, uncultivated area as a ‘brulé’. 2. Louisiana. An area of swampland in which the trees have been destroyed or cleared by fire, typically in order to be utilized as land for farming. ΚΠ 1834 V. Aimé Plantation Diary (1878) 34 Plant cane..have not yet suckered, except in the ‘brulé’. 1865 Rep. Col. W. Sayles, 3rd Rhode Island Cavalry 10 Feb. in War of Rebellion (U.S. War Dept.) (1896) 1st Ser. XLVIII. i. lx. 76 I sent out a cavalry force to the rear of a brulé south of Thompson's back plantation. 1887 N. Walker in Treasury Dept.: Ann. Rep. Commerce & Navig. U.S. II. iii. 266 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (50th Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 6, Pt. 2) XX The smaller farmers, particularly in the Brulés, or openings in the woods and swamps in Ascension and Assumption Parishes, make their purchases in Donaldsonville. c1890 in Jrnl. Amer. Folklore (1905) 18 250 Out dar in der brulée was a poor white what had a little place on der aidge of der swamp. 1916 Dial. Notes 4 346 Brulée,..An open place in a swamp, generally resulting from the destruction of trees by fire or storm. 1988 G. C. Din Canary Islanders of Louisiana vi. 89 Farmers..moved..to the ridges of the interior swamps, where they burned off the vegetation... In those burned areas, known as brulees, pockets of Isleños attempted to eke out an existence. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.c1783 |
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