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
The crisp snapping of twigs, succeeded by a rattling of small stones, were caused, not by the pads of the black loup-garou, but by a body weightier and less cowardly.
From Project Gutenberg
He is kin with those creatures of legend, the loup-garou, the vampire.
From Project Gutenberg
The trapper thinks of the "loup-garou," but no wolf-demon of native legend devoured the very real substance of that fox.
From Project Gutenberg
They had already been informed that if they did not keep still when the lady returned they would be given to the loup-garou and other mythical and traditional terrors of habitant childhood.
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