亚洲网紅露点

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coureur de bois

[ koo-rr duh bwah ]

noun

French.
plural coureurs de bois
  1. a French or French-Indian trapper of North America, especially of Canada.


coureur de bois

/ kur舱r d蓹 bwa /

noun

  1. Canadian history a French Canadian woodsman or M茅tis who traded with Indians for furs
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of coureur de bois1

Literally, 鈥渞unner, hunter of (the) woods鈥
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of coureur de bois1

Canadian French: trapper (literally: wood-runner)
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Example Sentences

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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.

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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.

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It took the barbarous coureur de bois to see through the paint!

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A French coureur de bois, whose tragic death forms the subject of one of the popular chansons of Quebec.

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The statement made in a previous chapter that Rene d鈥橝mours was unmarried and lived the life of a typical 鈥渃oureur de bois鈥 is incorrect.

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