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voyageur

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voy·a·geur  (voi-zhûr, vwäyä-zhr)
n. pl. voy·a·geurs (-zhûr, -zhr)
A woodsman, boatman, or guide employed by a fur company to transport goods and supplies between remote stations in Canada or the U.S. Northwest.
[French, traveler, from voyager, to travel, from voyage, journey, from Old French veyage; see voyage.]
voyageur [ˌvɔɪəˈdʒɜː]
n Canadian
1. (Historical Terms) History a boatman employed by one of the early fur-trading companies, esp in the interior
2. a woodsman, guide, trapper, boatman, or explorer, esp in the North
[from French: traveller, from voyager to voyage]


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They were wrapped in rich furs, their huge canoes freighted with every convenience and luxury, and manned by Canadian voyageurs, as obedient as Highland clansmen.
Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington View in context
Enormous avalanches fall against it every spring, sometimes covering everything to the depth of thirty or forty feet; and, in spite of walls four feet thick, and furnished with outside shutters, the two men who stay here when the VOYAGEURS are snugly quartered in their distant homes can tell you that the snow sometimes shakes the house to its foundations.
A Tramp Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
The voyageurs or boatmen were the rank and file in the service of the trader, and even the hardy "men of the north," those great rufflers and game birds, were fain to be paddled from point to point of their migrations.
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the far West by Irving, Washington View in context
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