loup-garou
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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
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Perhaps the priest may be right, wife, and this about loup-garou may not be true.
From A Lover in Homespun And Other Stories by Smith, F. Clifford (Frank Clifford)
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
"You keel loup-garou with knife?" he asked, as if seeking corroboration for an unbelievable story.
From The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest by Hendryx, James B. (James Beardsley)
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