foutereau

[< Cdn F < F foutre < L futuere copulate]

Obs.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the North American mink, Mustela vison.

Quotations

1801

[Jabouran (the young Foutrau) arrived from Lac La course soon after the Canoes went off.]

1852

It is the Shakweshew or Atjakashew of the Crees, the "Mink" of the fur-traders, and the Foutereau of the Canadians.

1933

Foutrau was another name for the vison or mink of the Northwest.