loup-garou
noun
a werewolf; lycanthrope.
loups-garous
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pluralof loup-garou.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Likewise, one might run into haints, phantasmagorical flaming skulls, duppies, lycanthropic loups-garous and more.
From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2021
He opens the door and window that have been shut tight against strangers and the loups-garous, the werewolves that stalk the nights of the superstitious.
From Time Magazine Archive
"If loups-garous are abroad, also, what is to become of this unhappy land?"
From The Chase of Saint-Castin and Other Stories of the French in the New World by Mary Hartwell Catherwood
Of course for every case of real malady many were imputed or charged upon poor creatures, who were driven to madness by groundless charges of witchcraft and sorcery, and being loups-garous in secret.
From The Man-Wolf and Other Tales by Erckmann-Chatrian
They are the loups-garous; in their bodies ride the spirits of devils, and there they will ride until the bodies die.
From Nomads of the North A Story of Romance and Adventure under the Open Stars by James Oliver Curwood
