voyageur

 [vwah-yah-zhur, voi-uh-; Fr. vwa-ya-zhœr]  

vo·ya·geur

   [vwah-yah-zhur, voi-uh-; Fr. vwa-ya-zhœr]
noun, plural vo·ya·geurs  [-zhurz; Fr. -zhœr] .
(in Canada) a person who is an expert woodsman, boatman, and guide in remote regions, especially one employed by fur companies to transport supplies to and from their distant stations.
Origin:
1785–95; < French: traveler, equivalent to voyag(er) to travel (derivative of voyage journey; see voyage) + -eur -eur

Can be confused: voyager, voyageur.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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voyageur (ˌvɔɪəˈdʒɜː)
 
—n
1.  history a boatman employed by one of the early fur-trading companies, esp in the interior
2.  a woodsman, guide, trapper, boatman, or explorer, esp in the North
 
[C19: from French: traveller, from voyager to voyage]

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