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Definition of Bayous
1. bayou [n] - See also: bayou
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bayous
Literary usage of Bayous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant by Ulysses Simpson Grant (1885)
"The effort to make a waterway through Lake Providence and the connecting bayous
was abandoned as wholly impracticable about the same time. ..."
2. Lessons in the History of Louisiana: From Its Earliest Settlement to the by John Bull Smith Dimitry (1877)
"The great number of bayous to be found within its limits. ... Along the banks of
bayous—which are not very far apart, either, as a rule—the trees seem, ..."
3. Survey of Oyster Bottoms in Matagorda Bay, Texas by United States Bureau of Fisheries, Henry Frank Moore (1907)
"SHORES AND bayous. Above Dressing Point there is a practically continuous fringe
of scattering oysters along shore and in the bayous, a condition which also ..."
4. The Civil War in Song and Story: 1860-1865 by Frank Moore (1889)
"There was a putting revolvers in order, donning fatigue suits, leaving hastily
written letters behind. swamps and bayous, returned and took a new course. ..."
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