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单词 pirogue
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piroguen.

Brit. /pᵻˈrəʊɡ/, U.S. /pəˈroʊɡ/, Caribbean English /pɪˈroːɡ/
Forms: 1600s pyrage, 1600s pyrogue, 1600s– pirogue, 1700s perioque, 1700s pyraugue, 1700s pyrog, 1800s peerog, 1800s periogue, 1800s peroague, 1800s peroque, 1800s perouge, 1800s peruke, 1800s piroque, 1800s– perogue, 1900s– peerow.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French pirogue.
Etymology: < French pirogue (1638; earlier as pirague , piragua (1555), after Spanish piragua piragua n.) < Carib piraugue , piragua piragua n. Compare earlier piragua n.
U.S. regional (chiefly southern) and Caribbean.
Originally: a long narrow canoe hollowed from the trunk of a single tree; = piragua n. 1. Subsequently also: any of various kinds of canoe or small open boat.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > vessels of primitive construction > [noun] > canoe of indigenous peoples > other types of canoe
pirogue1666
dory1709
Montreal canoe1793
waka1807
tandem canoe1867
Rob Roy1868
canot du maître1872
Peterborough1882
snake-boat1882
shadow canoe1883
tandem1884
buckeye1885
Canader1893
vinta1900
bellum1901
spoon canoe1907
sponson canoe1911
ratting canoe1944
tarada1960
canot du nord1961
1666 J. Davies tr. C. de Rochefort Hist. Caribby-Islands 39 The Caribbians will of one trunk make those long shallops called pyrages.
1698 tr. F. Froger Relation Voy. Coasts Afr. 66 Pyrogues..large Canoos, very long and made of one single tree, hollowed.
1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 206 The Savages..transport Plants in their Pyrogs.
1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. (1796) II. iv. 161 Their pirogues or war boats are so large as to carry forty or fifty men.
1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Pirogue... In modern usage in America, a narrow ferry-boat carrying two masts and a lee board.
1860 E. Domenech 7 Years' Resid. Deserts N. Amer. II. 276 Canoes are of three sorts: piroques, made of the stem of a single tree; small boats lined with buffalo hide..; and lastly the canoe properly so called.
1889 Harper's Mag. Nov. 851/1 She is what they call a pirogue here [i.e. in the West Indies].., she has a long narrow hull, two masts, no deck: she has usually a crew of five, and can carry thirty barrels of tafia.
1926 I. S. Cobb Some United States xi. 264 A little later four husky chaps in pirogues ranged up alongside us.
1954 Sun (Baltimore) 15 Mar. 9/1 French-speaking trappers paddle pirogues through backwater bayous of Louisiana in search of muskrat.
1988 M. Matura Playboy of West Indies 63 Is your daughter he bamboozle an stop us from sharing de spoils of a fleet a three twelve foot pirogues and dozens a thirsty Coppra Cutters an fisherman.
1995 Sun-Sentinel (Fort-Lauderdale, Florida) (Nexis) 3 Sept. 12 A rustic fishing village where the wooden pirogues routinely return with catches of a variety of sharks.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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