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UK
/lˈɛviː/
]
[ US /ˈɫɛvi/ ]
[ US /ˈɫɛvi/ ]
NOUN
- an embankment that is built in order to prevent a river from overflowing
- a pier that provides a landing place on a river
- a formal reception of visitors or guests (as at a royal court)
How To Use levee In A Sentence
- And the first ranks have been followed by what one might almost call a levée en masse of those that remained. England's Effort: Letters to an American Friend
- In other words, he was responsible for formal receptions - known as levees - and dinners.
- As there was no abatement of the blows of the boat against the embankment, no reply nor explanation, a shot from the gun of one of the levee-watch came skipping lightsomely over the water as The Crucial Moment 1911
- But in the overnight hours, there was a breach, a breach of the levee on the lakefront.
- I move on like a sinners prayer. I let them go like a levee breaks.
- So this levee was not designed to withstand a hurricane the magnitude of Katrina.
- Kors: Initial reports on the Corps and the faultiness of the levees were pretty brief. Joshua Kors: Q&A With Harry Shearer: Voice of The Simpsons Speaking Up for New Orleans
- Restoring the levees is a problem to be faced later. Rebuilding New Orleans? « BuzzMachine
- Louisiana's congressional delegation larded the bill with $540,580,200 worth of earmarks, one-fifth the price of a capable levee.
- After the flood, existing levees were rebuilt, extended, and reinforced with revetments.
