Meaning of coureur de bois | Babel Free

Definitions

A fur trader operating in North America in the seventeenth or eighteenth century without permission from the French authorities.

historical

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“Those who stayed in New France often fled the fields to take up lives in the wilderness, where they traded for furs with the Indians or simply “went native.” […] In contemporary terms, these woodsmen—or coureurs de bois—were first-generation immigrants to aboriginal societies whose cultures and values they partially assimilated.”

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