Canoas

[ kuh-noh-uhs; Portuguese kah-naw-ahs ]

noun

1. a city in SE Brazil, N of Pôrto Alegre.

Example Sentences

In his day canoas, hollowed from trunks of trees, were put into general use for war as well as for traffic.

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I have seen some of those canoas with seventy and eighty men in them, each one with his oar.

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At the jetty end, where the Indians lounged at their tobacco and the fishermen's canoas rocked, the sunburnt pirates put ashore.

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Of the sixty-four who got to the canoas, eighteen were desperately wounded, and barely able to walk.

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Here the Indians were sent out in small canoas, with their spears and tortoise irons.

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