单词 | coureur de bois |
释义 | coureur de boisn. Now Historical. A woodsman, hunter, trader, etc., of French or French-Indian origin, in Canada and the northern and western United States. Also elliptical as coureur. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hunter > [noun] huntc1000 huntera1325 cacherec1340 pricasourc1387 waithmanc1425 chaser1470 huntsman1567 pricker1575 Nimrod1623 venator1656 fieldmana1683 sportsman1699 coureur de bois1700 sporting parson1757 chasseur1796 jäger1823 shikari1827 venerer1845 hunting-man1859 gamer1887 hunterman1891 veldman1895 the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of Canada > [noun] > French French Canadian1698 coureur de bois1700 Canadien1727 Acadian French1741 Canadian French1755 habitant1789 Frenchy1829 Canuck1835 pea soup1866 pea-souper1930 Joe1963 1700 in Documents Colonial Hist. N.-Y. (1854) IV. 749 Severall of the French Coureurs de bois or hunters are there at this time. 1750 W. Douglass Brit. 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. 1773–8 in T. Hutchins Topogr. Descr. Virginia 51 An Expedition undertaken by Himself [sc. P. Kennedy] and several Coureurs de Bois in the year 1773. 1877 F. Parkman Count Frontenac (1897) v. 57 Du Lhut, the famous leader of coureurs de bois. 1900 E. B. Osborn Greater Canada 21 The merchant..handed over their value..to the coureur. 1920 Punch 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. 1958 E. McInnis Canada (ed. 2) v. 85 The coureurs were ranging beyond Lake Superior. 1969 E. 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1700 |
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