loup-garou
Americannoun
plural
loups-garousExample Sentences
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George Rodrigue, who died in 2013, was catapulted to fame by his blue dog paintings, which were based on a Cajun legend called loup-garou.
From BBC • Jan. 8, 2015
When the show began, patrons viewed a cinema which showed the cheetah, by this time almost as legendary as a loup-garou, retrieving duck and pheasant.
From Time Magazine Archive
And then again he saw it, and yet again, sometimes one shadow, sometimes two shadows, silent, furtive, like the loup-garou with which his nurse had scared him in his childhood.
From The Refugees by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
I sneered, "does the Mayor of St. Gildas and St. Julien believe in the loup-garou?"
From Famous Modern Ghost Stories by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
The Mewan Indians call the giant wolf “Too-le-ze” and that is also the name they gave me, but I am not a werwolf, a loup-garou or a Too-le-ze.
From The Black Wolf Pack by Beard, Daniel Carter
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