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2 definitions found 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: bayou n : a swampy arm or slow-moving outlet of a lake (term used mainly in Mississippi and Louisiana)
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