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What is a coureur de bois?

What is a coureur de bois? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (historical) A fur trader operating in North America in the seventeenth or eighteenth century without permission from the French authorities.
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Jacques Morand, the coureur de bois, was in love with Genevieve Parent, but she disliked him and wished only to serve the church.
There are recipes for fried bannock, salmon chowder, sunshine soup, coureur de bois casserole, apple sauce and frogs' legs.
The coureur de bois, who had reached the settlement later than his companion, grunted.
After travelling several kilometers, we stop for lunch in a genuine coureur de bois cabin.
It was a coureur de bois, not hurt in body, but so frightened that his state was pitiful.
La Salle was a coureur de bois, most of this time, for he operated in a field far larger than that for which he had a license.

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