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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Voyageur \Voy`a`geur"\, n. [F., fr. voyager to travel. See Voyage.] A traveler; -- applied in Canada to a man employed by the fur companies in transporting goods by the rivers and across the land, to and from the remote stations in the Northwest.
Wiktionary
n. A trader, particularly in furs, who worked (and explored) in the area of Canada and the northern United States from the 16th to early 19th centuries; they were often of Quebecois extraction.
Wikipedia
Voyageur is the fifth studio album by the German musical project Enigma and released in 2003.
Voyageur was considered to be Enigma's most different album ever created, due to Enigma's drastic changes in sound as compared to the previous four albums. The project's signature shakuhachi flutes, Gregorian chants and tribal chants found on the earlier albums were all but gone on Voyageur. Instead, most of the songs found on the album were more pop-oriented, such as " Voyageur", "Incognito", " Boum-Boum" and "Look of Today"; the latter of which interpolates the chorus of ABC's hit " The Look of Love". Michael Cretu described Voyageur's genre as "sophisticated pop". Only a few samples of previous works are retained; a familiar reversed cymbal rhythm appears in "Look of Today", while "Incognito" contains the chorus of previous hit " Sadeness" buried in the bridge of the song. The "Enigma foghorn" also appears at the opening of the record.
This album has been released with the Copy Control protection system in some regions.
"Voyageur" is a 2003 song created by the musical project, Enigma. The single was the first released from their fifth album, Voyageur. The video for the song was filmed on location in Prague, the Czech Republic.
Voyageur may refer to:
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Voyageurs, professional canoemen who transported furs by canoe during the fur-trade era in North America
- Coureurs des bois, independent fur traders in 17th and 18th century North America - sometimes called voyageurs
- Voyageurs National Park, a US National Park in Minnesota
- Terminus Voyageur (disambiguation)
- The Voyageurs, a Canadian soccer fan club founded in 1996
- Voyageurs (camp), a French-language immersion program run through the Concordia Language Villages
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Voyageur (Enigma album), 2003
- "Voyageur" (song), on the Enigma album
- Voyageur (Kathleen Edwards album), 2012
- Voyageurs (novel), a 2003 novel by Margaret Elphinstone
- Voyageur Colonial Bus Lines, a Canadian intercity bus company
- Voyageur Airways, a Canadian charter airline
- DTA Voyageur, a French ultralight trike design
- Voyageur Press, an imprint of UK publishing house The Quarto Group
Voyageur is the fourth studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Kathleen Edwards, released on January 17, 2012. The album was produced by Edwards and Justin Vernon of Bon Iver. Voyageur reached the 39th position on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart, becoming Edwards' first top 100 and top 40 album in the U.S., and her first top ten album in Canada, peaking at number two.
In addition to Edwards' regular backing band, guest musicians on the album include Francis and the Lights, Norah Jones, The Good Lovelies, Stornoway, John Roderick, Phil Cook of Megafaun, S. Carey and Afie Jurvanen.
The album was named as a longlisted nominee for the 2012 Polaris Music Prize on June 14, 2012, and later listed as one of the 10 shortlisted nominees for the prize on July 17.
Usage examples of "voyageur".
Again the swift coureurs de bois, half-savage in their ambassadorship of the woods, follow the traces of the most ancient roadmakers, the buffalo and deer, and the voyageurs carry their boats across the portage places.
Les nains noirs, poulpiquets et korrigans, qui, le soir, des que la corne du berger a rappele le troupeau aux etables, dansent au clair de lune et forcent le voyageur a entrer dans leur ronde, habitent ce palais farouche.
He turned, startled, and in the doorway stood Mademoiselle Ninon, her short skirt belted with a red silk scarf, -- the token of some trapper, -- her ankles protected with fringed leggins, her head covered with a beribboned hat of felt, such as the voyageurs wore.
Instead of stroking his ego about a bardship, it offered a blunt assessment: Give it up and accept being a voyageur.
As Iberville, with Sainte-Helene and Perrot, sat watching the canoes that followed, with voyageurs erect in bow and stern, a voice in the next canoe, with a half-chanting modulation, began a song of the wild-life.
Half were proud buffalo hunters descended from the mixed marriages of voyageurs and HBC clerks with Cree, Saulteaux, Blackfoot, Chipewyan, Dogrib and Slavey women.
Gayly dressed voyageurs and trappers, singing old river songs that had been handed down to them from their fathers, unharnessed the dogs and dragged the cariole into town.
He has even imagined primitive carpenter shops and ovens and huts on these paths where the voyageurs must stop for repairs, food, and rest--the precursors of garage, road-house, and hotel.
For many nights the three voyageurs camped, slept, and dreamed, with only the laughing loons, the calling herons, the plaintive owls, and distant fox bark to sweep across their slumbers.
He turned, startled, and in the doorway stood Mademoiselle Ninon, her short skirt belted with a red silk scarf, -- the token of some trapper, -- her ankles protected with fringed leggins, her head covered with a beribboned hat of felt, such as the voyageurs wore.
The Pawnees had died in their cold tepees by the fifties, the soldiers lay dead in the trenches without the fort, and many a gay French voyageur, who had thought to go singing down the Missouri on his fur-laden raft in the springtime, would never again see the lights of St.
At the Great Bear, overcome by the common dread of the Unknown Lands, their voyageurs began to desert, and Fort of Good Hope saw the last and bravest bending to the towlines as they bucked the current down which they had so treacherously glided.
Thus for the next few days we moved forward, the monotony of existence broken only by the great variety of mirage, the glare of heat-waves, and the silent signal in the sky of other voyageurs like ourselves.
Not presidents, popes, or premiers, and especially not obscure voyageurs running the Commune circuit.
It was an imposing fleet, for the outfit was large, and they were accompanied by a disreputable contingent of half-breed voyageurs with their women and children.