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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

bayou [Louisiana Fr.; from Choctaw bayuk =small stream], term used mainly in U.S. Gulf states, especially Louisiana and Mississippi, to describe a stationary or sluggishly moving body of water that was once part of a lake, river, or gulf and is swampy or marshy in nature. Bayou is sometimes used as a synonym for oxbow lake, a former meander in a river valley cut off from that stream. ... Read more

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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology

bayou XVIII. — Amer. F. — a Choctaw word.

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Still or slow-moving section of marshy water, usually a creek, secondary watercourse, or minor river that is a tributary of another river or channel. It may occur in the form of an oxbow lake . Bayous are typical of Louisiana's Mississippi River delta .For more information on bayou , visit ...

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