Wikipedia
Boucan may refer to:
- Boucan, a frame for drying meat over a fire, or the dried meat itself
- Boucan d'enfer, a studio album from French artist Renaud
- Boucan-Carré (Creole: Boukan Kare) is a commune in the Mirebalais arrondissement in the Centre department of Haiti
- Grand-Boucan (Creole: Gran Boukan) is a commune in the Baradères arrondissement in the Nippes department of Haiti
Usage examples of "boucan".
It was at this crisis in their history that they began to be known as buccaneers, or people who practise the boucan, the native way of curing meat.
They planted tobacco and sugar, followed the boucan, and lived as they had lived in the past at Hispaniola.
Close to the shore was a boucan of green wood, such as was used for preserving the meat, and a great store of barbecued strips of ox-flesh was hung upon lines all round it.
Then each took up a hide and returned to the boucan, where they dined on the flesh they had killed.
They called the stuff boucan, which was really the French word for cured beef.
Investigation showed that four of them had probably contained food, either salt pork or boucan, for some mouldering bones still remained in three of them, while the fourth was still half full of musty flour.
Then he made a further examination of the house, finding more boucan stored in a small, low attic, also clothing, both outer and inner garments, nautical instruments, including a compass, a pair of glasses of power, and bottles of medicine, the use of some of which he knew.