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bayou|ˈbaɪuː|
Also byo, bayoue, bayeau, pl. bayoux.
[Amer. Fr., f. Choctaw bayuk.]
The name given (chiefly in the southern States of N. America) to the marshy off-shoots and overflowings of lakes and rivers.
1766H. Gordon in N. D. Mereness Travels Amer. Colonies (1916) 484 We left New Orleans..and lay that night in the Bayoue. 1808Ashe Trav. Amer. xl. 323 Below the Red River, five miles, is one of the most dangerous bayeaus on the Mississippi. 1814Brackenridge Views Louisiana 162 On some of these bayoux the land is sufficiently high to admit of settlements. 1818Cobbett Resid. U.S. (1822) 273 Johnson's Ferry, a place where a Bayou (Boyau) of the Wabash is crossed. This Bayou is a run out of the main river, round a flat portion of land. 1834Crockett Narr. Life vi. 53 A small byo, cross which there was a log. 1847Longfellow Ev. ii. iii. 51 How have you nowhere encountered my Gabriel's boat on the bayous? 1872Amer. Naturalist VI. 725 A peculiar feature of the bottom lands of the western and southern rivers, locally termed bayous. 1901S. E. White Westerners xiii. 93 In a word the broad sea of the wilderness has shrunken to bayous and bays.
attrib.1850H. C. Lewis Louisiana Swamp Doctor 161, I saw the dust up the bayou road shaken up by a half-naked negro. 1886Harper's Mag. Aug. 483/1 The following bayou version of one of the negro folk-lore stories. |