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‖ marigot|ˈmærɪgɒt|
[F. marigot (Littré).]
In Western Africa, a side channel of a river.
1759tr. Adanson's Voy. Senegal in Pinkerton's Collect. (1814) XVI. 610 Before I could get thither, I was obliged to cross two marigots; these are rivulets with which the whole country is intersected. 1864R. F. Burton Dahome I. 35 Passing up a marigot or branch channel, worn down by porters' feet to a deep wet ditch. 1894Q. Rev. July 273 The French troops..crossed 172 ‘marigots’, with steep banks and full of water. |