Pirogue Definition

pĭ-rōg, pîrō
pirogues
noun
pirogues
A dugout canoe.
Webster's New World
Any canoe-shaped boat.
Webster's New World

A small flat-bottom boat of shallow draft. Specifically, a flat-bottom boat made of one four-feet by eight-feet piece of plywood, the bottom being a two-feet eight-inches wide eight-feet long pointed-ends lengthwise-centered oval cut from the piece, and the boat's sides being comprised of the two remaining pieces attached lengthwise to the outside edges of the oval.

Wiktionary

A style of pasta shaped as a miniature canoe folded over.

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Other Word Forms of Pirogue

Noun

Singular:
pirogue
Plural:
pirogues

Origin of Pirogue

  • From French pirogue, in turn from Spanish piragua, from Galibi Carib piraua.

    From Wiktionary

  • French from Spanish piragua piragua

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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