levee

     

A levee, levée (from the feminine past participle of the French verb lever, "to raise"), floobank or stopbank is a natural or artificial slope or wall, usually earthen and often parallels the course of a river. Linguists agree that the term "levee" came into English use in New Orleans. It is known in Europe as a dike.

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  • You may be waiting for the Robert E. Lee on a natural one of these raised river banks created by flood waters
  • This word for a Mississippi River embankment comes from the French meaning "to rise"
  • From the French for "to raise", it's an embankment designed to prohibit the overflow of water
  • (Sofia of the Clue Crew at the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California) The shape of the Oval Office may go back to this type of 18th century formal reception, where guests formed a circle
  • A flooding embankment; Led Zeppelin had a song about one

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