frontiersman

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frontiersman

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From frontiers + man.

noun frontiersmen

A person who lives on the borders of a country, or in a wild and undeveloped area on the fringes of civilization. The inhabitant's of England's North American colonies outnumbered French Canadians some ten to one, but the French were tough, fur-trapping frontiersmen who posed a considerable military threat.

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@misc{frontiersman_2026,
  title = {frontiersman},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/frontiersman},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}