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‖ voyageur|vwajaʒœr|
[F.; see prec.]
In Canada, a man employed by the fur companies in carrying goods to and from the trading posts on the lakes and rivers; a Canadian boatman.
1793J. Macdonell Diary 6 June in C. M. Gates Five Fur-Traders (1933) 75 Lost the half of this day by rain..a perfect nuisance to us voyageurs. 1809A. Henry Trav. 18 In ascending the Longue Sault, a distance of three miles, my canoes were three times unladen, and, together with their freight, carried on the shoulders of the voyageurs. 1842A. Combe Physiol. Digestion (ed. 4) 90 St Martin returned to Canada..[and] engaged as a voyageur with the Hudson's Bay Fur Company. 1893Nation (N.Y.) 17 Aug. 121/2 At the nightly bivouac, to the astonishment of the voyageurs, the noises continued.
attrib.1903Daily Mail 5 Sept. 5/6 The party was put into one of the large voyageur flat-bottomed boats. |