Hypertext Webster Gateway: "bayous"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bayou \Bay"ou\, n.; 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.
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