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‖ coureur de bois Now Hist.|kurœːr də bwa|
Also coureur des bois.
[Fr., lit. ‘wood-runner’.]
A woodsman, hunter, trader, etc., of French or French-Indian origin, in Canada and the northern and western United States. Also ellipt. as coureur.
1700in Docum. Col. Hist. N.Y. IV. 749 Severall of the French Coureurs de bois or hunters are there at this time. 1750W. Douglass Settlem. N. Amer. II. 245 The French, consisting of 500 Coureur des bois (in New England they are called Swampiers), with as many Indians or savages. 1877F. Parkman Count Frontenac (1897) v. 57 Du Lhut, the famous leader of coureurs de bois. 1900E. B. Osborn Greater Canada 21 The merchant..handed over their value..to the coureur. 1920Punch 30 June 502/2 His lifelong ambition to be painted by Mr. John, with the primeval backwoods for a setting, in the character of a coureur-des-bois. 1958E. McInnis Canada (ed. 2) v. 85 The coureurs were ranging beyond Lake Superior. 1969E. W. Morse Fur Trade Canoe Routes i. i. 8 The coureur de bois belongs to the French period of Canadian history, while the voyageur belongs to the period after 1763. |