bayou
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bayous, plural;
/ˈbīo͞o/,/ˈbīō/,
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bayous, plural;
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(in the southern US) A marshy outlet of a lake or river
Web Definitions:
- a swampy arm or slow-moving outlet of a lake (term used mainly in Mississippi and Louisiana)
- A bayou (or) is a body of water typically found in flat, low-lying areas, and can refer either to an extremely slow-moving stream or river (often with a poorly defined shoreline), or to a marshy lake or wetland. ...
- Bayou is a ballet made by New York City Ballet's co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to Virgil Thomson's Acadian Songs and Dances (1947). The premiere took place February 21, 1952, at City Center of Music and Drama, New York.
- Bayou is a major American literary magazine based at the University of New Orleans. It publishes poetry, fiction, essays and the winnter of the annual Tennessee Williams One-Act Play Contest. Bayou published through the dislocations surrounding the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
- The Bayou nightclub of Georgetown, Washington, D.C., was a non-stop rock, blues, pop, and reggae club reflecting the cutting edge of prevalent tastes on the contemporary popular music scene.
- A creek; A very slow-moving creek; A swamp; this sense?) An inlet from the Gulf of Mexico, from a lake, or from a large river, sometimes sluggish, sometimes without perceptible movement except from tide and wind
- The outlet of a lake or one of the delta streams of a river.
- a small river like body of water without a current, typically found in the swamps. From the Choctaw work, bayuk.Bayou St. John: body of water in the center of New Orleans at the end of Esplanade Avenue. A popular location for public ceremonies in the later part of the 19^th century.
- A relatively small, sluggish waterway through lowlands or swamps, generally with a slow, almost imperceptible current flow. Often also defined simply as slow moving streams crisscrossing Louisiana.
- Swampy area that is a common in Louisiana near the end of the Mississippi River delta.
- {by yoo} French name for slow-moving river.
- an inlet of a river which once consisted of the active river channel itself. At some point in time the river changed course and left the bayou. In most areas the pronunciation is "bi (long i) u (long u); however, in the Mississippi Delta it is pronounced bi (long i) o (long o). ...
- The streams crisscrossing Louisiana.