prau

[ prou ]

noun

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How to use prau in a sentence

  • I shall send Dain off to-night in a canoe, by the hidden channels, on board the prau.

    Almayer's Folly | Joseph Conrad
  • Coming abreast of the war-prau, Piang loosed the other basket of bees.

  • A small prau arrived which had been attacked by pirates and had a man wounded.

    The Malay Archipelago | Alfred Russell Wallace
  • But when it appeared that the Moro had advanced about half a league away from us, all the vessels set out in the wake of his prau.

  • A third prau followed in the wake of the other two, and all three were lost in the blackness of the overhanging cliffs.

    Tales of the Malayan Coast | Rounsevelle Wildman

British Dictionary definitions for prau

prau

/ (praʊ) /


noun
  1. another word for proa

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