Plural of curagh; multiple traditional Irish leather boats or a fleet of such vessels.
Regular plural of curagh. The word maintained its Irish Gaelic form even when English speakers pluralized it, showing how language absorbs foreign words while adapting them to English grammar.
When Irish monks famously sailed across the Atlantic in curaghs, they were using technology unchanged for millennia. Finding descriptions of 'curaghs' in medieval texts shows us exactly which monks had access to these particular boats.
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