bayoun.
/ˈbʌɪuː/, U.S. /ˈbaɪu/, /ˈbaɪoʊ/ The name given (chiefly in the Southern states of North America) to the marshy off-shoots and overflowings of lakes and rivers.
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1766 H. Gordon in N. D. Mereness Travels Amer. Colonies (1916) 484 We left New Orleans..and lay that night in the Bayoue.
1808 T. Ashe Trav. Amer. 1806 xl. 323 Below the Red River, five miles, is one of the most dangerous bayeaus on the Mississippi.
1814 H. M. Brackenridge Views Louisiana ii. ix. 162 On some of these bayoux the land is sufficiently high to admit of settlements.
1818 T. Hulme Jrnl. 1 July in W. Cobbett Year's Resid. U.S.A. (1819) iii. 335 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.
1834 D. Crockett Narr. Life vi. 53 A small byo, cross which there was a log.
1847 H. W. Longfellow Evangeline ii. iii. 51 How have you nowhere encountered my Gabriel's boat on the bayous?
1872 Amer. Naturalist 6 725 A peculiar feature of the bottom lands of the western and southern rivers, locally termed bayous.
1901 S. E. White Westerners xiii. 93 In a word the broad sea of the wilderness has shrunken to bayous and bays.
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