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piragua

[ pi-rah-gwuh, -rag-wuh ]

noun

  1. Also a canoe made by hollowing out a tree trunk.
  2. a flat-bottomed sailing vessel having two masts.


piragua

/ -ˈræɡ-; pɪˈrɑːɡwə /

noun

  1. another word for pirogue
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of piragua1

1525–35; < Spanish < Carib: dugout
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Word History and Origins

Origin of piragua1

C17: via Spanish from Carib: dugout canoe
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Example Sentences

Lin-Manuel popping in here and there as the piragua man.

And “In the Heights,” which opened on Broadway in 2008 and was supposed to arrive in movie theaters last year, feels as of the moment as a freshly scraped piragua on a broiling July day and as permanent as the girders of the George Washington Bridge.

She returns home for the summer in the grip of an ambivalence that is as much a fixture of the Heights as open fire hydrants and piragua carts.

Jackson played Benny in the Broadway production of In the Heights and here appears as the Piragua Guy’s rival, selling Mister Softee.

From Slate

Miranda, happily a bit player in a world he created, plays the piragua guy.

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