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Definition of voyageur in English: voyageurnoun ˌvɔɪəˈʒəːˌvwʌjəˈʒəːˌvwäyəˈZHər historical (in Canada) a boatman employed by the fur companies to transport goods and passengers to and from the trading posts on the lakes and rivers. 〈史〉（加拿大）（受雇于皮货公司运送人和物的）船夫 Example sentencesExamples - Neither do we have a clear sense of how the everyday activities of the priests, voyageurs, habitants, military personnel, and their families were influenced by close interactions with Native groups on the frontier.
- Natives and the 18th and 19th century French-Canadian traders known as voyageurs were also impressed; they left offerings of tobacco to the cliff.
- Scottish merchants used their transatlantic connections to drive Franco-American competitors from the market, but for the retail end of their commerce they relied on the same voyageurs as had their predecessors.
- To begin with, he sketches the canoe routes, touching on the fur trade and the penetration of the continent by the voyageurs.
- The early voyageurs called their wool caps ‘tuques,’ and it never went away.
OriginFrench, literally 'voyager', from voyager 'to travel'. Rhymesà deux, agent provocateur, astir, auteur, aver, bestir, blur, bon viveur, burr, Chandigarh, coiffeur, concur, confer, connoisseur, cordon-bleu, cri de cœur, cur, danseur, Darfur, defer, demur, de rigueur, deter, entrepreneur, er, err, farceur, faute de mieux, fir, flâneur, Fleur, force majeure, fur, hauteur, her, infer, inter, jongleur, Kerr, littérateur, longueur, masseur, Monseigneur, monsieur, Montesquieu, Montreux, murre, myrrh, occur, pas de deux, Pasteur, per, pisteur, poseur, pot-au-feu, prefer, prie-dieu, pudeur, purr, raconteur, rapporteur, refer, répétiteur, restaurateur, saboteur, sabreur, seigneur, Sher, shirr, sir, skirr, slur, souteneur, spur, stir, tant mieux, transfer, Ur, vieux jeu, voyeur, were, whirr Definition of voyageur in US English: voyageurnounˌvwäyəˈZHər historical (in Canada) a boatman employed by the fur companies in transporting goods and passengers to and from trading posts. 〈史〉（加拿大）（受雇于皮货公司运送人和物的）船夫 Example sentencesExamples - The early voyageurs called their wool caps ‘tuques,’ and it never went away.
- Scottish merchants used their transatlantic connections to drive Franco-American competitors from the market, but for the retail end of their commerce they relied on the same voyageurs as had their predecessors.
- Natives and the 18th and 19th century French-Canadian traders known as voyageurs were also impressed; they left offerings of tobacco to the cliff.
- Neither do we have a clear sense of how the everyday activities of the priests, voyageurs, habitants, military personnel, and their families were influenced by close interactions with Native groups on the frontier.
- To begin with, he sketches the canoe routes, touching on the fur trade and the penetration of the continent by the voyageurs.
OriginFrench, literally ‘voyager’, from voyager ‘to travel’. |