English Explanatory Dictionary

coureur de bois

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

coureur de bois coureurs de bois coureur des bois

Etymology

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

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