coureur de bois
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of coureur de bois
Literally, “runner, hunter of (the) woods”
Example Sentences
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When Britain's King George VI and Queen Elizabeth visited Montreal, he entertained them with a stream of jokes, persuaded the King to sing the rollicking song of the coureur de bois, Alouette.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet it would be false coloring to paint the half-savage coureur de bois as a romantic lover of nature.
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. X (of X) - America - II, Index by Lodge, Henry Cabot
I remembered that I was dressed roughly, was torn and rumpled by my contest with the forest, and that I must appear an out-at-elbows coureur de bois.
From Montlivet by Smith, Alice Prescott
Accordingly, he sent orders to the judge, at Montreal, to seize every coureur de bois on whom he could lay hands.
From Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV by Parkman, Francis
They heaped calumny upon his enterprises, labelled him a coureur de bois, and persistently wrecked his schemes.
From Old Quebec The Fortress of New France by Bryan, Claude Glennon
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