Fur Traderとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

fur trader (plural fur traders)

1. One who is engaged in the fur trade.
   • 1835, William Gilmore Simms, The Yemassee, A Romance of Carolina, page 94:

     "Does the white chief come to the great council of the Yemassees as a fur trader? Would he have skins for his coat?" was the reply.

   • 1986, C. Roderick Wilson, R. Bruce Morrison, Native Peoples, The Canadian Experience, page 318:

     Ross was a former fur trader who retired to the Red River Settlement with his Okanagan wife and their children.

   • 1993, Funk & Wagnalls Corporation, Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia, volume 23, page 82:

     From its founding St. Louis was both a market and an outfitting point for fur traders and explorers of the American West.