Atchafalaya

[ uh-chaf-uh-lahy-uh ]

noun

1. a river in S central Louisiana, flowing S to an inlet Atchafalaya Bay on the Gulf of Mexico; a heavily engineered distributary of the Mississippi. 225 miles (362 km).

Example Sentences

Below this bayou, another of large dimensions breaks forth on the same side, and finally falls into the Atchafalaya.

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His two next letters were written from Brashear City on the Atchafalaya river, but contained no explanation of his presence there.

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During the Civil War, we are told, the Atchafalaya could be bridged by three carts, so that soldiers could cross.

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An Ohio party paid $100 an acre for 100 acres here in this Atchafalaya country the other day.

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The wind was as often contrary as favorable, and we labored up the Atchafalaya till we got to Red River.

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