词汇 | pirogue |
词源 | pirogue. The Caribs, a fierce Caribbean tribe, called their dugout canoe piraguas, a word that French explorers changed slightly to piroque in the 17th century and passed on to the En- glish, who called the canoe a pirogue. |
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