Definition of "loups-garous" []

• Plural of loup-garou. (noun)

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• "Of course for every case of real malady many were imputed or charged upon poor creatures, who were driven to madness by groundless charges of witchcraft and sorcery, and being _loups-garous_ in secret."
• "Those whom the French called _loups-garous_ were in"
• "He had caught, in the voice of the wolves, the ravening note that had made Pierrot cross himself and mutter of the loups-garous, and he crouched down on his belly at the top of the rocky mound."