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Corruption of French boyau `gut' in the
Gulf States, USA, an oxbow lake or marshy
offshoot of a river. Bayous may be formed, as
in the lower Mississippi, by a river flowing
in wide curves or meanders in flat country,
and then cutting a straight course across
them in times of flood, leaving loops of
isolated water behind.