Definition of Coureur de bois

1. Noun. A French Canadian trapper.

Generic synonyms: Trapper

Definition of Coureur de bois

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

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Coureur De Bois

courantoes
courantos
courants
courb
courbaril
courbaril copal
courbed
courbette
courbettes
courbing
courbs
courd
coure
coured
coures
coureur de bois
coureurs de bois
courgette
courgettes
courier
couriered
couriering
couriers
couring
courlan
courlans
courol
cours
course
course authoring tool

Literary usage of Coureur de bois

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Canadian Types of the Old Regime: 1608-1698 by Charles William Colby (1908)
"In considering the coureur de bois as a social type, we are brought face to face with the fur trade. At the time Quebec was founded, French capitalists did ..."

2. History of Detroit, a Chronicle of Its Progress, Its Industries, Its by Paul Leake (1912)
"The manners and mode of life of the coureur de bois were those of the savages ... The coureur de bois ignored the regulations made by the Company of the ..."

3. A Treasury of Canadian Verse: With Brief Biographical Notes by Theodore H Rand (1900)
"Flashing and fading but leaving a trace In story and song of a hardy race, Finely fashioned in form and face— The Old Coureur-de-Bois. No loiterer he 'neath ..."

4. Journal of the National Institute of Social Sciences by National Institute of Social Sciences (U.S.) (1918)
"I am here tonight as a coureur de bois, or perhaps I would better say as a coureur de mer, "a runner of the sea." I would not have the analogy proceed so ..."

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