draveur

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French

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The L’Homme-Rivière monument pays homage to draveurs.

Etymology

From draver +‎ -eur.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dʁa.vœʁ/
  • Audio (Canada):(file)

Noun

draveur m (plural draveurs, feminine draveuse)

  1. (Canada) log-driver, river driver[1]
    • 1981, “Canada vignettes : la valse du maître draveur [Canada Vignettes: Log Driver's Waltz]”, Philippe Tatartcheff (lyrics), Wade Hemsworth (music)‎performed by Kate and Anna McGarrigle and the Mountain City Four, Office national du film du Canada, →OCLC:
      Et sachant qu’au soir ils s’amèneront veiller
      Je songe à la valse de mon maître draveur
      And knowing that in the evening they'll go out on the town
      I think of the waltz of my master log driver

Synonyms

References

  1. ^ draveur,” Le grand dictionnaire terminologique (Québec: Office québécois de la langue française, 2018).

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