piraguas

Those who sells "piraguas" are known as piragüeros.

Archive 2004-06-01 2004

Vendors sold piraguas to help beat the spring heat.

The Impossible Man - Ep.16: Puerto Rican Day Parade 2010

One other treat which defined my summers was piraguas: shaved ice cones

Archive 2004-06-01 2004

And now our dark piraguas sped over the surface of a silver stream, and every paddle-blade dripped diamonds.

Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine Annie T. Colcock

Padre Felipe, Barbara, and I, with two Indians, filled the smaller of the two piraguas; the other held five Indians and a store of provisions for the journey.

Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine Annie T. Colcock

We were to start in two swift canoes -- piraguas, he styled them -- and, keeping at first under the lee of the shore, follow the river to its mouth, then proceed up the coast along the safe passage afforded by an outlying chain of islands.

Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine Annie T. Colcock

And there, indeed, went the piraguas on their way back to the ships.

Captain Blood Rafael Sabatini 1912

He saw that the piraguas towed by each vessel were being warped alongside, and he wondered a little what this manoeuver might portend.

Captain Blood Rafael Sabatini 1912

There was a daring raid effected by means of several appropriated piraguas upon a Spanish pearl fleet in the Rio de la Hacha, from which they had taken a particularly rich haul of pearls.

Captain Blood Rafael Sabatini 1912

"But our landing will be effected in canoes and piraguas and open boats," cried an officer impatiently.

Captain Blood Rafael Sabatini 1912