Noun: pirogue
| Singular | pirogue |
| Plural | pirogues |
Sample Sentences
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There are even more elaborately prepared Cajun specialties, such as Bayou Bouillabaisse and pirogue of pasta and seafood. [1996, Rick Perlmutter, Gayle Perlmutter, Walt Disney World for Lovers, page 240:]
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The eggplant pirogue, a regional specialty, is especially good here. [1999, Fodor's 2000 USA, page 484:]
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Diners love the pirogue bread with crawfish tails, the barbecue shrimp with fiery tasso and the banana bread pudding. [2005 August, “Restaurants”, in Indianapolis Monthly, page 300:]
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She had ordered eggplant pirogue — a hollowed out eggplant, breaded, fried, and stuffed with shrimp, crawfish, and crab. [2019, Marlys Beider, Continuum, page 257:]
Nouns inflected like pirogue
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From French pirogue, in turn from Spanish piragua, from Kari'na piraua. Doublet of periagua. See: French Nouns '
pirogue', Spanish Nouns '
piragua'.