Canoas

American  

[kuh-noh-uhs, kah-naw-ahs] / kəˈnoʊ əs, kɑˈnɔ ɑs /

noun

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

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Example Sentences

Carla Sassi, chairwoman of Grad, a Brazilian nonprofit that rescues animals after disasters, said she met with state government officials in Canoas to discuss emergency measures to rescue pets.

From Seattle Times • May 10, 2024

Pictures emerged on Wednesday of a horse stranded on a rooftop amidst the floodwater in the city of Canoas.

From BBC • May 9, 2024

Migrants, mostly Venezuelans, waiting to board the bus to take them to the border with Nicaragua last month in Paso Canoas, Costa Rica.Credit...

From New York Times • Nov. 8, 2023

“If we keep doing more of the same ... we’re going to lose everything,” said state prosecutor Alexander Guterres Thomé, who regularly inspects the Canoas jail.

From Reuters • Apr. 10, 2019

The Canoas or Proes they hale up dry, and never suffer them to be long in the Water.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898—Volume 39 of 55 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of The Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century, Volume XXXIX: 1683-1690 by Blair, Emma Helen