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loup-marin
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a seal.
Quotations
1889
. . . Rivière du Loup. Its name is said to be derived from the fact that many years ago it was the resort of great droves of seals--loups-marins--who frequented the shoals at the mouth of the river.
1901
But he'll bring de fines' presen' from upper St. Maurice/ De loup marin an' black-fox from off de Hodson Bay/. . . .