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- French · borrowed frombossale
- English todaybossale
From French bossale, from Spanish bozal (“wild, untamed, raw; born in Africa and recently enslaved in a colony”). Doublet of bozal and bosal.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
bossale
Today it means: A black African-born enslaved person in a French (or sometimes other European) colony, especially Haiti (as opposed to a slave born in the colony). Full definition →
French bossale