prau

Well, the transnational character of the celebration seems apt, since "prau" is a type of boat.

Archive 2007-02-01 2007

UPDATE: Oscar Penaranda also notes that "prau" a prau can be a womb as how his mother carried him during WWII as they fled Manila to return to their home in the Island of Leyte, as well as that "prau" is the provenance, according to folktale, of Princess Urduha's historical and original name.

Archive 2007-02-01 2007

These thrills of joy may be considered as some compensation for such experiences as those contained in his graphic account of a single journey in a "prau," or native boat.

Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 James Marchant

A typo or a footnote can become central to the themes she navigates in her agile prau, sorting through truth, folklore, dream, memory, and pure desire.

WELCOME PRAU! 2007

A typo or a footnote can become central to the themes she navigates in her agile prau, sorting through truth, folklore, dream, memory, and pure desire.

Archive 2007-06-01 2007

A typo or a footnote can become central to the themes she navigates in her agile prau, sorting through truth, folklore, dream, memory, and pure desire.

Archive 2007-10-01 2007

Oh, and prau was once popular with Malayan pirates...just sayin'.

Archive 2007-02-01 2007

Often he had mentioned his daughter, the girl found in the pirate prau, speaking of her with a strange assumption of fatherly tenderness.

Almayer's Folly 2006

It was the sail of the prau that had caught the sunlight and stood out, distinct with its gay tint, on the dark red of the cape.

Almayer's Folly 2006

There, on the fore-deck of the prau, old Lingard found her under a heap of dead and dying pirates, and had her carried on the poop of the Flash before the Malay craft was set on fire and sent adrift.

Almayer's Folly 2006