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French pedlar Hist. 
n. a coureur de bois, especially one who competed for trade in Rupert's Land, thus being considered an interloper.
See also: pedlar (def. 1a)
- 1772, 1908 . . . in the afternoon passed by an old Trading house, belonging to the French pedlars before the conquest of Quebec. . . .
- 1960 The defeat of France in America did not mean the end of the "French Pedlars," as they were disdainfully called by the British Company.
- 1772, 1908 . . . in the afternoon passed by an old Trading house, belonging to the French pedlars before the conquest of Quebec. . . .