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Levee
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For other uses, see
Levee (disambiguation).
The side of a levee in
Sacramento,
California
A levee, levée, dike (or dyke), embankment, floodbank or stopbank is an elongated naturally occurring ridge or artificially constructed
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Levee
The word levee, from the French word levée (from the feminine past participle of the
French verb lever, "to raise"), is used in
American English (notably in the
Midwest and
Deep South). It originated in
New Orleans a few years after the city's foundi...
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