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pirogue

[pi-rohg, pee-rohg]

pi·rogue

[pi-rohg, pee-rohg]
noun
1.
piragua (def. 1).
2.
a native boat, especially an American dugout.

Origin:
1655–65; < French < Spanish piragua piragua
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pirogue or piragua (pɪˈrəʊɡ)
 
n
any of various kinds of dugout canoes
 
[C17: via French from Spanish piragua]
 
piragua or piragua
 
n
 
[C17: via French from Spanish piragua]

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pirogue

in its simplest form, a dugout made from one log, but also a number of more elaborately fashioned boats, including various native canoes, the structure and appearance of which generally resemble those of a dugout. The pirogue is widely distributed and may be found as a fishing vessel in the Gulf of Mexico; as a shallow-draft boat that is used to maneuver through the Louisiana swamplands; and as a boat used by the Indians of Guyana. Pirogues may be broadened by constructing them from two curved pieces or deepened by affixing planks to their sides. Compare canoe.

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