Meaning of Bayou | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A slow-moving, often stagnant creek or river.
2. A swamp; a marshy (stagnant) body of water.

Equivalents

Examples

“You natural persons old and young! / You on the Mississippi and on all the branches and bayous of the Mississippi! / You friendly boatmen and mechanics! you roughs!”

“At that time I had no staff officer who could be trusted with that duty. In the woods, at a short distance below the clearing, I found a depression, dry at the time, but which at high water became a slough or bayou.”

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