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coureur de bois

cou·reur de bois [ k rör də bw ] (plural cou·reurs de bois [ k rör də bw ])


noun 
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French-Canadian trader: somebody of French or French and Native American descent who trapped and traded furs in the 18th and 19th centuries in the north and northwest of what is now Canada

[Early 18th century. < French, "woods runner"]
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