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bois de vache bois de vaches [< Cdn F, literally "cow wood"] Hist. 
dry buffalo dung used as fuel.
See also: bodewash buffalo chip
- 1858 (1860) We kindled a fire with bois de vache, of which there was a vast quantity strewn over the plain. . . .
- 1963 In the pre-railway days every traveller on the plains used bois des vaches (buffalo droppings) as fuel, filling it into sacks whenever they found it. . . .
- 1858 (1860) We kindled a fire with bois de vache, of which there was a vast quantity strewn over the plain. . . .