Definition of "sauvage" []

• An obsolete form of savage. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "By the way, I have to wonder now if my alma mater, Knox College, knew about Ayers 'manifesto 15 years ago when it changed the school mascot from the Siwash (it's supposed to be a racial epithet offensive to native Americans, derived from the French word sauvage - "savage") to the Prairie Fire - the title of Ayers' little book."
• "Note: The word sauvage was meant to denote someone or a group who had not reached the point of civilzation or religion as Europeans."
• "But he did understand the word sauvage, having heard it so often in the French fort of Detroit when he went there as a boy with Ta-Kumsaw."