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noun
A fur trader operating in North America in the seventeenth or eighteenth century without permission from the French authorities.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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noun
a French Canadian trapper
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: trapper
History
Borrowed from French coureur des bois, literally “woods runner”.
