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Crusoe
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A surname of French origin, famously used for the title character of Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe.
"Robinson Crusoe was shipwrecked on a remote island for years."
Word Forms
Crusoes plural
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Etymology
Perhaps from French Crusiaux, a topographic surname from a diminutive of creux ("hollow").