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Bayou   /bˈaɪu/   Listen
Bayou

noun
(pl. bayous)
1.
A swampy arm or slow-moving outlet of a lake (term used mainly in Mississippi and Louisiana).





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"Bayou" Quotes from Famous Books



... b'ah in the Delta can get away from those dogs. We run this fellow straight on end for ten miles; put him across the river twice, and all around the Black Bayou, but the dogs kept him hot all the time, I'm telling you, for more than five miles through the cane, ...
— The Law of the Land • Emerson Hough
... Lake, on Hoe's Bayou, in Carroll parish, sixteen miles on the road leading from Bayou Mason to Lake Providence, is ready with a pack of dogs to hunt runaway Negroes at any time. These dogs are well trained, and are known throughout the parish. Letters addressed ...
— Clotel; or, The President's Daughter • William Wells Brown


Words linked to "Bayou" :   lake


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