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bayou::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | lake |
Examples of bayou
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Smith also shares the secrets of another bayou country favorite, Gumbo z'Herbes.
From the newsobserver.com
She was born just across the bayou, in a place she can see from her front porch.
From the us.cnn.com
In his pages, you can smell the bayou, and all but taste the po'boy sandwiches.
From the telegraph.co.uk
There is also a bayou-inspired area where kids can play games and swing on ropes.
From the dailynews.com
Stay healthy, win 16 at minimum or take the stand-up routine back to the bayou.
From the jsonline.com
Gov. Bobby Jindal even reopened some bayou waters to commercial fishing on Friday.
From the kentucky.com
First, he set up a station of two large white tents along the bank of a bayou.
From the time.com
The bayou, which is about 16 miles long, drains into the Houston Ship Channel.
From the chron.com
He returned to the lower parts of bayou country Tuesday morning to check his home.
From the tennessean.com
- 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.
