draveur
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draveur m (plural draveurs, feminine draveuse)
- (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)[1]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
- And knowing that in the evening they'll go out on the town
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- “draveur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.