coureur de bois

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from French coureur des bois, literally “woods runner”.

Noun[edit]

coureur de bois (plural coureurs de bois)

  1. (historical) A fur trader operating in North America in the seventeenth or eighteenth century without permission from the French authorities.
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