Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A canoe made by hollowing out a tree trunk; a dugout.
- noun A flatbottom sailing boat with two masts.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
periagua .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
pirogue .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
Puerto Rican frozendessert , shaped like apyramid , made of shaved ice and covered with fruit flavoredsyrup .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Women in a salon swap gossip and a man pushing a "piragua" cart sells icy treats to cut the heat.
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Women in a salon swap gossip and a man pushing a "piragua" cart sells icy treats to cut the heat.
Broadway's New Beat 2008
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Visible in the street murals of the Lower East Side, in the piragua ices sold from wagons in El Barrio, in the boldness of our artistic expressions, these colors are esteemed by people who themselves form a human rainbow mosaic.
Virginia Sanchez-Korrol: On Being Latino With a New York Accent Virginia Sanchez-Korrol 2011
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Visible in the street murals of the Lower East Side, in the piragua ices sold from wagons in El Barrio, in the boldness of our artistic expressions, these colors are esteemed by people who themselves form a human rainbow mosaic.
Virginia Sanchez-Korrol: On Being Latino With a New York Accent Virginia Sanchez-Korrol 2011
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I never tasted those flavors as far as Mamey goes … the only thing that I could think of is the “crema” flavor served by the piragua guys around the Bronx … anyone wanna agree? lol
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They paid no heed to my appeal save to give a mighty shove to our canoe that sent it out toward midstream; then, seizing their paddles, with swift strokes they sent their own piragua speeding up the river.
Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine Annie T. Colcock
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And I fled in a piragua, sore wounded, from the fight.
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He was once captured by the Spaniards, and taken to Havana, but escaped with a few other prisoners in a canoe, seized a piragua, and with this captured a sloop employed in the turtle trade, and by gradually taking larger and larger prizes, Lewis soon found himself master of a fine ship and a crew of more than fifty men.
The Pirates' Who's Who Giving Particulars Of The Lives and Deaths Of The Pirates And Buccaneers Philip Gosse 1919
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When I came there it was to behold him paddling away in a long piragua.
Black Bartlemy's Treasure Jeffery Farnol 1915
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And I fled in a piragua sore wounded from the fight.
The Last Buccaneer 1895
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