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canoe song

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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a song or chanson, especially as sung by French-Canadian canoemen as they plied their paddles; boat song.

See: boat song

Quotations

1828

A company of Canadian North West Voyageurs, lately arrived from Red River were introduced and sung their Canoe Songs for the gratification of the Queen.

1904

So now he puckered his lips to the sibilance of a canoe-song and waited.