The story
- French · borrowed fromcoureur des bois
- English todaycoureur de bois
Borrowed from French coureur des bois, literally “woods runner”.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
coureur de bois
Today it means: A fur trader operating in North America in the seventeenth or eighteenth century without permission from the French authorities. Full definition →
French coureur des bois