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- a small creek that is the bayou of a larger stream
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“Bayou.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bayou. Accessed 28 Oct. 2020.
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The first known use of bayou was in 1763
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