coureur de bois
Definitions
A fur trader operating in North America in the seventeenth or eighteenth century without permission from the French authorities.
Equivalents
Françaiscoureur de bois
Examples
“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.”
CEFR level
C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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