loup-garou
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George Rodrigue, who died in 2013, was catapulted to fame by his blue dog paintings, which were based on a Cajun legend called loup-garou.
From BBC • Jan. 8, 2015
When the show began, patrons viewed a cinema which showed the cheetah, by this time almost as legendary as a loup-garou, retrieving duck and pheasant.
From Time Magazine Archive
For one whirling moment Padraig believed everything he had heard or read of werewolf or of loup-garou.
From Masters of the Guild by Lamprey, L.
"Then," stammered Padraig, "it is not true that—that—" "That the loup-garou is abroad in the land?" finished Brother Basil with delicate scorn.
From Masters of the Guild by Lamprey, L.
And then again he saw it, and yet again, sometimes one shadow, sometimes two shadows, silent, furtive, like the loup-garou with which his nurse had scared him in his childhood.
From The Refugees by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
