voyageur
noun
(in Canada) a person who is an expert woodsman, boatman, and guide in remote regions, especially one employed by fur companies to transport supplies to and from their distant stations.
voyageurs
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pluralof voyageur.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Together they bill themselves as “authentic Quebec,” home to 16th-century French settlements and rivers that were the original highways used by First Nations travelers and, later, French Canadian fur traders known as voyageurs.
From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2020
We sat by the fire that night listening to more stories about the Boundary Waters and the French voyageurs who opened them to the world in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries.
From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2016
"I don't know about the voyageurs," he said.
From US News ● Jun. 24, 2016
Trees, you know, gave the city its name; the French voyageurs, at first sight of the wooded valley, cried, "Voyez le bois."
From Time Magazine Archive
The voyageurs trembled at the thought that the disease might already have chosen one of them.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
