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just got this from a hurricane messageboard on ABC.com...always wondered where levee came from (no, I never LIU):
>A levee or levée (from the feminine past participle of the French verb lever, 'to raise') is a natural or artificial embankment or ****, usually earthen, which parallels the course of a river. The word seems to have come into English through its use in colonial Louisiana<
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Holy cow--take a look at Gurunet's second def., #1; do people actually do this?
lev·ee1 (lĕv'ç)
n.
1. An embankment raised to prevent a river from overflowing.
2. A small ridge or raised area bordering an irrigated field.
3. A landing place on a river; a pier.
tr.v., lev·eed, lev·ee·ing, lev·ees.
To provide with a levee.
[French levée, from Old French levee, from feminine past participle of lever, to raise. See lever.]
lev·ee2 (lĕv'ç, lə-vç', -vâ')
n.
1. A reception held, as by royalty, upon arising from bed.
2. A formal reception, as at a royal court.
[From French lever, a rising, from Old French, from lever, to raise, rise. See lever.]
Maybe I'd get up earlier if I had a reception waiting for me...
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John and Yoko held one that went on for several days
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In one of the scenes cut from Hello Dolly, Dolly and her friends donned their jeans and went out and had a gathering at which they built an embankment, for which a tax had been coollected to defray the expenses; the tax was known as --Levi's Levis' Levee Levee Levee.
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The Governor General of Canada holds events called levees, but I don't believe he or she holds them in his or her bedroom.
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And there's one in the first act of Der Rosenkavalier
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:: gets largest foam bat ::
:: beats TEd ::
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hey Spart, you wanna cut TEd a little slack and cut a few bops? made the screen go all widey... :P
formerly known as etaoin...
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hey, Sp'ye? you made my screen go wide with all that boppin'!
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