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
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
And how can a loup-garou get over that water?
From The Chase of Saint-Castin and Other Stories of the French in the New World by Catherwood, Mary Hartwell
So he comes down river, takes his Newport season here at Moisie, and goes to mass and staves off the loup-garou.
From The Man Who Rocked the Earth by Wood, Robert Williams
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