Definition of Pirogue
a dugout canoe
Use Pirogue in a sentence
I saw something in the water out in the bayou. I went down to the pier to look closer and saw that it was a pirogue, drifting with the currents. Then I realized it wasn’t drifting.
The next day she found out their pirogue had capsized and that Glenny had nearly drowned.
I saw some cypress trees, birds, an old woman poling a pirogue in the river.
Soon after first light this morning I boarded a pirogue, a canoe hacked out of a tree trunk, for the last stage of the journey, along the twisting Ndeiram Kabur River.
At midday our pirogue reaches our destination, a riverbank close by the treehouse.
The three of them were attempting to row the pirogue back to the big boat.
“I traveled by pirogue, by camel, negotiating with village chiefs, ” Haidara told.
They come by car, bus, bicycle and, yes, sometimes a few by pirogue.
The moon was down and it was dark as a cellar when he turned the pirogue onto a beach.