levée
English
Noun
levée (plural levées)
- Obsolete spelling of levee.
- 1877, John Stevens Cabot Abbott, chapter XXIV, in The History of the Civil War in America[1], volume 2, Springfield: C. A. Nichols & Co., page 290:
- At this place the levée ran along about one hundred and fifty yards back from the ordinary bank of the river, thus leaving when the water was low, a smooth green lawn, beautifully adapted for an encampment, with the levée or dike, eight feet high and fifteen feet wide, protecting from attack on the land side. Breastworks were thrown up from the levée to the river, above and below the encampment. Back of the levée there was a fine plantation.
French
Pronunciation
Noun
levée f (plural levées)
Derived terms
Verb
levée f
- feminine singular of the past participle of lever
Further reading
- “levée”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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