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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-; pɪˈrÉ‘ËÉ¡wÉ™ /

noun

  1. another word for pirogue
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of piragua1

1525–35; < Spanish < Carib: dugout
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of piragua1

C17: via Spanish from Carib: dugout canoe
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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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