piragua

[pi-rah-gwuh, -rag-wuh]

noun

1. Also a canoe made by hollowing out a tree trunk.

2. a flat-bottomed sailing vessel having two masts.

piragua

/ -ˈræɡ-, pɪˈrɑːɡwə /

noun

1. another word for pirogue

Word History and Origins

Origin of piragua¹

1525–35; < Spanish < Carib: dugout

Word History and Origins

Origin of piragua¹

C17: via Spanish from Carib: dugout canoe

Example Sentences

Lin-Manuel popping in here and there as the piragua man.

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And “In the Heights,” which opened on Broadway in 2008 and was supposed to arrive in movie theaters last year, feels as of the moment as a freshly scraped piragua on a broiling July day and as permanent as the girders of the George Washington Bridge.

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She returns home for the summer in the grip of an ambivalence that is as much a fixture of the Heights as open fire hydrants and piragua carts.

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Jackson played Benny in the Broadway production of In the Heights and here appears as the Piragua Guy’s rival, selling Mister Softee.

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Miranda, happily a bit player in a world he created, plays the piragua guy.

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Related Words

• kayak 
• outrigger