loup-garou

[loo-ga-roo, loo-guh-roo]

noun

French.

plural

loups-garous 

1. a werewolf; lycanthrope.

Example Sentences

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.

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Many murders are said to be committed in this way, after the manner of the mythical German wehr-wolf or the French loup-garou.

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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.

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He is kin with those creatures of legend, the loup-garou, the vampire.

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The trapper thinks of the "loup-garou," but no wolf-demon of native legend devoured the very real substance of that fox.

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