coureur de bois

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   a French Canadian trapper

   Broadertrapper

Questions about coureur de bois

What does coureur de bois mean?

coureur de bois means "a French Canadian trapper".

Is coureur de bois a common word?

coureur de bois is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.