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• curagh, curragh

語源

From Irish curach, corrach, from Proto-Celtic *korukos (“boat”).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈkʌɹə/, /ˈkʌɹəx/
• Homophone: Curragh

名詞

currach (plural currachs)

1. (nautical) An Irish boat, constructed like a coracle, and originally the same shape; now a boat of similar construction but conventional shape and large enough to be operated by up to eight oars.
   • 2002, Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea, Vintage, published 2003, page 53:

     Some days he went out in the currach with her father and her brothers, out past Blue Island and Inishlackan, where the mackerel and sea salmon were fat as piglets.