boucaneux

Updated: May 1, 2025

Indian summer was succeeded by the 'temps boucaneux, when hoarfrost drooped noiselessly on the night its silver powder on all the dazzling colouring, presenting nature robed in a delicate white guise each morning, which the sun appropriated to himself as soon as he could get above the vapours.

Elizabeth Hely Walshe - Cedar Creek: From the Shanty to the Settlement