sauvage

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.

Weapon of Mass Distraction 2008

Note: The word sauvage was meant to denote someone or a group who had not reached the point of civilzation or religion as Europeans.

Jeanne Mance de Brantigny........................ 2007

Note: The word sauvage was meant to denote someone or a group who had not reached the point of civilzation or religion as Europeans.

Archive 2007-12-16 de Brantigny........................ 2007

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.

Heartfire Card, Orson Scott 1998

Angelo Mercado, a doctoral student in Indo-European studies at UCLA, has a blog called sauvage noble "an austronesian's adventures in altertumswissenschaft and indogermanistik" that makes me nostalgic for my graduate days spent rummaging in old books in foreign languages.

languagehat.com: SAUVAGE NOBLE. 2004

Mr. Pound has since apologized, making the point that his understanding of the term "sauvage" was deficient.

globe and mail readers respond to margaret wente 2008

Mr. Pound has since apologized, making the point that his understanding of the term "sauvage" was deficient.

Archive 2008-10-01 2008

If he'd meant the "wild and untamed" sense of "sauvage" and he was speaking French, and he was speaking French correctly, he would have said "un pays sauvage".

calling all anthropologists 2008

Un article qui montre du doigt un nécessaire changement de mentalité dans les départements IT: nombre des outils que les employés utilisent pour améliorer leur productivité ont en fait été introduits de façon "sauvage".

The Shadow IT Department (and Shadow HR) — Climb to the Stars 2007

..andy pandy...i didn't expect anyone to 'get it' but "sauvagnon" comes from the french 'sauvage' or wild, if you will...

Repentance: Back-Pedaling Under Duress BikeSnobNYC 2009