piragua

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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.

From Slate • Jun. 10, 2021

“I’m rolling by as the Piragua Guy,” he recalls fondly, “and I said, ‘Jon, just give me one take where I want to try something.’

From Washington Post • Jun. 2, 2021

That the traffic lights change fast and my sister must hold tight to my hand as we cross to where a small man singing Piragua!

From "Brown Girl Dreaming" by Jacqueline Woodson

Learning the cause of their sadness, because the Holy Eagerness which they had was not cooled, he provided a Piragua of his own, very capacious, with Indian rowers and Supplies necessary for all.

From History of the Spanish Conquest of Yucatan and of the Itzas Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Hard University. Vol. VII. by Means, Philip Ainsworth