pirogue (plural pirogues)
A canoe of shallow draft, made by hollowing a log.
A small flat-bottom boat of shallow draft. Specifically, a flat-bottom boat made out of a four-foot by eight-foot piece of plywood, the bottom being a two-foot eight-inch-wide eight-foot-long pointed-end lengthwise-centered oval cut from the piece, and the boat's sides being the two remaining pieces attached lengthwise to the outside edges of the oval.
A style of pasta shaped as a miniature canoe folded over.
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Source: Wiktionary
Pi*rogue", n. Etym: [Originally an American Indian word: cf. F. pirogue, Sp. piroga, piragua.]
Definition: A dugout canoe; by extension, any small boat. [Written variously periauger, perogue, piragua, periagua, etc.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
25 March 2025
(noun) fixation (as by a plaster cast) of a body part in order to promote proper healing; “immobilization of the injured knee was necessary”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.