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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

LOUP-GAROU

Loup `-ga `rou ", n.; pl. Loups-garous (#). [F., fr. loup wolf + a Teutonic word akin to E. werewolf. ]

 

Defn: 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.