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Meaning of LOUP-GAROU

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Loup`-ga`rou"\, n.; pl. {Loups-garous}. [F., fr.
loup wolf + a Teutonic word akin to E. werewolf.]
A werewolf; a lycanthrope.
      The superstition of the loup-garou, or werewolf,
      belongs to the folklore of most modern nations, and has
      its reflex in the story of ``Little Red Riding-hood''
      and others.                              --Brinton.
 
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