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noun, masculine

chasseur

/ʃa.sœʁ/

noun, masculine/ʃa.sœʁ/plural: chasseurs

a hunter; a fighter plane; a servant or attendant; a la façon chasseur, a style of cooking in which meat is cooked with a sauce containing mushrooms, shallots and white wine

Un chasseur sachant chasser doit savoir chasser sans son chien.A hunter who knows how to hunt must hunt without his dog. [a French tongue-twister]

From chasser + -eur; found in Old French as chaceür, chaceor. Compare Italian cacciatore, Spanish cazador.