pirate story
Swashbuckling nautical adventure
A pirate story is a tale featuring seafaring outlaws, typically set during the golden age of piracy in the 17th and 18th centuries.
The genre trades in familiar elements: treasure maps, ship battles, buried gold, walking the plank, and phrases like "shiver me timbers." The kids wanted me to read them a pirate story before bed.
- treasureValued wealth or keepsake
- buried treasureValuables interred for safekeeping
- treasure mapGuide to hidden loot
- shipSeagoing transport vessel
- captainOne who commands
hook · peg leg · parrot · sword · adventure · sea · desert island · gold · island · plank · buccaneer · crew · rum · yo ho ho · cannon · mast · skull · crossbones
- sea talesmermaid tale, ghost ships, shipwrecks, ocean voyage, tall tale
- story typesmyth, fable, fables, legend, drama
- storiestale, tales, myth, legend, fable
- Occupation Talescowboy ballad