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coureur de bois
[ koo-r²Õr duh bwah ]
noun
- a French or French-Indian trapper of North America, especially of Canada.
coureur de bois
/ kur²Õr dÉ bwa /
noun
- Canadian history a French Canadian woodsman or Métis who traded with Indians for furs
yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of coureur de bois1
yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of coureur de bois1
Example Sentences
La Salle was a coureur de bois, most of this time, for he operated in a field far larger than that for which he had a license.
The matter will be discussed in the following chapter; meanwhile let us briefly note the further development of the coureur de bois question to the end of Frontenac's first administration.
It took the barbarous coureur de bois to see through the paint!
A French coureur de bois, whose tragic death forms the subject of one of the popular chansons of Quebec.
The statement made in a previous chapter that Rene dâAmours was unmarried and lived the life of a typical âcoureur de boisâ is incorrect.
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