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loup-marin Cdn French "marine wolf, sea wolf" 
n. a seal.
- 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 (1903) But he'll bring de fines' presen' from upper St. Maurice/ De loup marin an' black-fox from off de Hodson Bay/. . . .
- 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.