Crossword clues for bayous
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of bayou English)
Usage examples of "bayous".
THE TRAIL WOUND between bayous, passing unbelievably ancient mangroves, draped in the veils of Spanish moss.
Soon as the wag stops in front of the gates" THE SENIOR SEC MAN in charge of the entrance gates to the camp was Balliol Davichaux, a tall, skinny cajun with most of his left hand missing, the result of a tangle in the bayous with a mutie gator.
Without a word—just a toss of her aristocratic head—she always managed to reduce him to the small, ill-clothed, bad boy from the bayous, anxious for a favor from an uptown Creole girl.
The past few years, various oil companies had been widening many of the bayous into navigation canals and dredging an interconnecting network of drilling and pipeline canals, often without regard for the ecosystem or the public water supplies.
He was the same rude, crude bad boy of the bayous as he'd always been.
It had numerous bayous and bridges fanning out like the spokes of a bicycle wheel.
Fortunately for them, there were a lot of bayous in Louisiana that were not yet civilized or known to men, especially since every time the Mississippi changed its course or flooded over, new bayous were created and old ones swallowed up.
We can maneuver the pirogue into some back bayous that aren't accessible by motorboat.
With each storm, new bayous were birthed and old ones swallowed up, as if they'd never existed.
Nowhere is their sense of humor more evident than in the titles they gave their beloved bayous: Bayou Go to Hell, Bayou Funny Louis, and Bayou Mouchoir de l'Ourse (handkerchief of a she-bear).
All through the bayous the whisper had gone out of a disaster at a ritual.
But at least eight went down, hit hard, and the others fled into the bayous, splashing and crying out to each other in odd, bubbling cries.
The building shook to its rafters from the heavy stamping that passed for dancing in the bayous, to the accompaniment of a fiddle and an accordion.
The walls had paintings of the bayous, streaked with dark and light greens.
But to have eight corpses to dump into the bayous in a single day couldn't just be overlooked—and there were four more men with serious gunshot wounds to tend.