pirogue
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At noon on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 1806, five large canoes and a pirogue approached the township of St. Louis in the Louisiana Territory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
He recounted how once they boarded the pirogue, he and the other passengers were covered with a tarpaulin: "I closed my eyes and thought of my mother," he said.
From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 2026
At the same event, competition is fierce to win the pirogue race.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2024
Artists hung paintings from trees, converted the walls of stores and restaurants into galleries, and filled some of Dakar’s run-down architectural gems with installations — piles of rubble, pieces of pirogue boats, a tennis court.
From New York Times ● May 30, 2024
His pirogue was empty, which made sense if he were returning from the markets in Kinshasa; but there weren’t any containers or racks, either.
From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer
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