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brulé brûlé, brule [< Cdn F brûlé, brûlis]

• 1 n. an area that has been burnt out by a forest fire, characterized by charred stumps and rampikes.

  See also: burn ((n.)) (def. 3)  burnt-out area (def. 1)  burnt woods  fire-barren  fire-burn  Grand Brulé   rampike  rampike country  

  • 1793  (1933)  This brulé came to the water's edge. . . .
  • 1824  (1955)  Got out of the new burnt Ground & into an old Brule. . . .
  • 1873  (1904)  Thick with brulé and tangled forest lay the base of the mountain. . . .
  • 1965  I had to cross a stretch of brulé. . . .

• 2 n. Hist. a tract of new land cleared by burning (def. 1) during the early days of settlement.

  See also: burning (def. 1)  burnt land(s) (def. 2)  

  • 1901  . . . in spring and summer they farmed their narrow fields, and rescued new lands from the brûle. . . .
  • 1942  "It would be better if those stumps were cleared out of the brulé," she considered.