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单词 coureur de bois
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coureur de boisn.

/kuːˌrəː də ˈbwa/
Forms: Also coureur des bois.
Etymology: French, lit. ‘wood-runner’.
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.
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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).
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