bois de vache

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Definition of bois de vache words

noun bois de vache dried buffalo dung, used as fuel by Canadian and U.S. fur trappers in the 18th and 19th centuries. 1

before 1835

One of the 34% newest English words

1835-45, Americanism; < Prairie Canadian French: literally, buffalo wood (vache buffalo, French: cow)

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