voyageurs
- plural of voyageur.
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
"I don't know about the voyageurs," he said.
From US News ● Jun. 24, 2016
Little has changed along the aquatic thoroughfares that crisscross large swaths of northern Quebec and Ontario, allowing the creative canoeist to retrace the experiences of these voyageurs, battling the same rapids in similar solitude.
From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2011
The story lingers admiringly with such illustrious voyageurs as Leif the Viking, Marco Polo, Diaz and Vasco da Gama, Columbus and Magellan, Livingstone and Stanley.
From Time Magazine Archive
Onto the shirt, she had sewn four carefully hoarded brass buttons, gleaming, each marked with the French flower that the voyageurs called fleur-de-lis.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
