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n. (context Louisiana dialect English) An area of shrub oak growing in sandy soil.
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Chenier or Chénier is a sandy or shelly beach ridge that is part of a strand plain, called a “chenier plain,” consisting of cheniers separated by intervening mud-flat deposits with marsh and swamp vegetation. Cheniers are typically 1 to 6 m high, tens of km long, hundreds of metres wide, and often wooded. Chenier plains can be tens of km wide. Cheniers and associated chenier plains are associated with shorelines characterized by generally low wave energy, low gradient, muddy shorelines, and abundant sediment supply. The name is derived from the French word for wood, “chêne,” meaning oak, which grows on chenier ridges within southwest Louisiana.
Cheniers made primarily of shells of the Colorado Delta clam are found in the tidal flats of the Colorado River Delta in northeastern Baja California, Mexico, as well as in Essex, England. In Essex, Ground-truthing data demonstrate that the radar profiles accurately delineate the subsurface stratigraphy and sedimentary structure of the cheniers. Interpretation of the radar stratigraphy taken from the radar reflection profiles allows various deposits to be identified. These have resulted from overwashing, overtopping, sedimentation across the whole of a seaward dipping beachface or berm ridge welding onto the upper beachface. Each chenier is characterised by a different spatial arrangement of these four basic depositional units.
A Chenier is a former beach that, through the activities of nature, have become isolated from the sea by strips of marshes. Chenier may also mean:
- Clifton Chenier, U.S. musician
- André Chénier, French poet (1762-1794)
- Andrea Chénier, an opera inspired by his life
- Jean-Olivier Chénier, Lower Canada Patriote
- Joseph Chénier, French writer (1764-1811) and brother of André
- Chenier Cell, a terrorist cell of the FLQ
- Chanier, a lunar crater
- Pierre Chenier, Canadian politician
Usage examples of "chenier".
The special commission appointed to make recommendations was a peculiar mixture of literary men such as Fabre Romme and Marie-Joseph Chenier and serious scientists such as Monge and Fourcroy.
Although the literature of France could boast of many men of great talent, such as La Harpe, who died during the Consulate, Ducis, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Chenier, and Lemercier, yet they could not be compared with Lagrange, Laplace, Monge, Fourcroy, Berthollet, and Cuvier, whose labours have so prodigiously extended the limits of human knowledge.
The lurid nature of a father contracting the abduction of his own child fed a wildfire of sensationalist journalism, but even before the worst of it, Lucy Chenier concluded that life with yours truly was not worth the risk, so she took her son and went home.
I did not reveal these things to the reporters who mobbed me for interviews after the events with Ben Chenier, but somehow the information found its way into their stories.
Lucy Chenier, she pictured Lucille Ball, all that wild red hair, bulging eyes, and loony bullshit with Ethel Mertz.
Picturing Ben Chenier telling his ten-year-old buddies about me caused an ache in my chest.
Richard Chenier had hired three mercenaries to kidnap his son, and five people had died before it was over.
Andre Chenier is now recognised as one of the finest masters of song who have enriched French literature, and his poems are more and more studied and admired both by his own countrymen and abroad.
Louis XVI the projector, Laperouse and de Langle the commanders, Dentrecasteaux and Kermadec the searchers, Andre Chenier the laureate: the breath of the black-robed Fury was upon them all!
Once upon a time, as Olivia Chenier, spoiled and wild and the youngest of the golden Archer clan, she had been as glamorous and above their touch as a movie star to the people of the town.
The girl asked Big John to give her friend Selena Chenier a job, and he did.
I had a mental image of myself as Andrea Chenier, in his tumbrel, rattling along the cobbled streets of Paris on his way to the guillotine.
Camille Desmoulins, the Chenier brothers, the sans-culotte militant Ronsin and many others.
Romantic weather-forecasting like Andre Chenier and William Wordsworth, who felt its drama, continued to describe the Revolution as a great cyclonic disturbance.
David, together with a team of collaborators that included Gossec and Marie-Joseph Chenier, to consummate the formal acceptance of the new constitution.