boulaire

Updated: May 8, 2025

Some of the cows were wounded in the battle, and the sight of their blood drove the others mad, so that they fought till almost all the herd was destroyed; whence the name Boulaire, from ébouëler, to disembowel, a word formed from bouë, the patois for boyau.

G. F. (George Forrest) Browne - Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland