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voyageur /ˌvwʌjəˈʒəː / /ˌvɔɪəˈʒəː/noun historical(In Canada) a boatman employed by the fur companies to transport goods and passengers to and from the trading posts on the lakes and rivers.To begin with, he sketches the canoe routes, touching on the fur trade and the penetration of the continent by the voyageurs....- The early voyageurs called their wool caps ‘tuques,’ and it never went away.
- Natives and the 18th and 19th century French-Canadian traders known as voyageurs were also impressed; they left offerings of tobacco to the cliff.
OriginFrench, literally 'voyager', from voyager 'to travel'. Rhymesà deux, agent provocateur, astir, auteur, aver, bestir, blur, bon viveur, burr, Chandigarh, coiffeur, concur, confer, connoisseur, cordon-bleu, cri de cœur, cur, danseur, Darfur, defer, demur, de rigueur, deter, entrepreneur, er, err, farceur, faute de mieux, fir, flâneur, Fleur, force majeure, fur, hauteur, her, infer, inter, jongleur, Kerr, littérateur, longueur, masseur, Monseigneur, monsieur, Montesquieu, Montreux, murre, myrrh, occur, pas de deux, Pasteur, per, pisteur, poseur, pot-au-feu, prefer, prie-dieu, pudeur, purr, raconteur, rapporteur, refer, répétiteur, restaurateur, saboteur, sabreur, seigneur, Sher, shirr, sir, skirr, slur, souteneur, spur, stir, tant mieux, transfer, Ur, vieux jeu, voyeur, were, whirr |