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Webster 1913 Edition
Bayou
Bay′ou
,Noun.
pl.
Bayous
. [North Am. Indian
bayuk
, in F. spelling bayouc
, bayouque
.] An inlet from the Gulf of Mexico, from a lake, or from a large river, sometimes sluggish, sometimes without perceptible movement except from tide and wind.
[Southern U. S.]
A dark slender thread of a
bayou
moves loiteringly northeastward into a swamp of huge cypresses. G. W. Cable.