noun
pl. cou·reurs de bois′ an unlicensed French or French-Indian fur trader or trapper roving the early frontiers of Canada
Origin of coureur de bois
Fr, literally , runner of the woodscoureur de bois
cou·reur de boisWebster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition Copyright © 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural coureurs de bois)
- (historical) A fur trader operating in North America in the seventeenth or eighteenth century without permission from the French authorities.
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