rigoletn.

1771 E. Mease Narr. Journey through W. Florida in Publ. Mississippi Hist. Soc. (1925) (Centenary Ser.) V. 65 Pass'd through the Rigolets which are low marshy Islands.

1775 B. Romans Conc. Nat. Hist. E. & W. Florida 7 In the lakes at Chef Menteur, and in the passes of the rigolets, the water rose prodigiously and covered the low islands there two feet.

1817 W. Darby Geogr. Desc. State of Louisiana (rev. ed.) 356 Rigolet, a water that flows both ways.

1893 A. H. Keane tr. É. Reclus Earth & its Inhabitants: N. Amer. I. v. 382 The broad basin of Melville, or Big Bay, apparently a land-locked sheet of water, but really communicating through a ‘rigolet’, or narrow gullet, with Hamilton Inlet and the ocean.

1904 Picayune's Guide New Orleans (ed. 6) 181 The Rigolets is a deep channel which connects Lake Borgne and Lake Pontchartrain.

1998 A. L. Riley Restoring Streams in Cities i. 2 What someone in Wyoming calls a draw, or in New Hampshire a creek, someone in Florida, Alabama, or Louisiana may call a rigolet or bayou.

2008 Mobile (Alabama) Reg. (Nexis) 16 Jan. a1 The officer found the body in the North Rigolets Bayou, near the Mississippi–Alabama state line.