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OP 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<
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted levee WhitmanO'Neill 08/31/05 12:34 AM Re: levee Jackie 08/31/05 01:51 AM Re: levee Bingley 08/31/05 05:21 AM Re: levee inselpeter 08/31/05 08:46 AM Re: levee TEd Remington 08/31/05 11:13 AM a beating is in order Sparteye 08/31/05 07:59 PM Re: a beating is in order Buffalo Shrdlu 08/31/05 08:05 PM Re: a beating is in order tsuwm 08/31/05 08:06 PM Re: a beating is in order Sparteye 09/01/05 12:07 AM Re: a beating is in order Buffalo Shrdlu 09/01/05 12:58 PM Re: a beating is in order tsuwm 09/01/05 01:12 PM Re: levee AnnaStrophic 09/01/05 12:35 PM Levy instead of levee TEd Remington 09/01/05 04:01 PM Re: levee Elizabeth Creith 08/31/05 11:50 AM Re: levee inselpeter 08/31/05 12:17 PM Re: levee wsieber 09/08/05 05:00 AM
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