A levee (/ˈlɛvi/ or /ˈlɛveɪ/), dike (American English), dyke (British English; see spelling differences), embankment, floodbank, or stop bank is an elevated...

Look up levee or levée in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Levee or levée comes from the French verb lever, meaning "getting up" or "rising". It has two...

Levée en masse (French pronunciation: [ləve ɑ̃ mɑs] or, in English, mass levy) is a French term used for a policy of mass national conscription, often...

The levee (from the French word lever, meaning "getting up" or "rising") was traditionally a daily moment of intimacy and accessibility to a monarch or...

On Monday, August 29, 2005, there were over 50 failures of the levees and flood walls protecting New Orleans, Louisiana, and its suburbs following passage...

A levee breach or levee failure (also known as dyke breach or dyke failure) is a situation where a levee (or dyke) fails or is intentionally breached,...

When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts is a 2006 documentary film directed by Spike Lee about the devastation of New Orleans, Louisiana following...

"When the Levee Breaks" is a country blues song written and first recorded by Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy in 1929. The lyrics reflect experiences...

Newport on the Levee is a dining and attraction destination located on Third Street in Newport, Kentucky. It is located adjacent to the Purple People...

Lorin Levee (8 July 1950 – 22 February 2012) was an American clarinetist. Levee studied clarinet at De Paul University. He played clarinet in the Grant...

The Levee District was the red-light district of Chicago from the 1880s until 1912, when police raids shut it down. The district, like many frontier town...

A New Year's levée is a social event on New Year's Day hosted by the Governor General of Canada, the lieutenant governors, military establishments, municipalities...

John Levee (April 10, 1924 – January 18, 2017) was an American abstract expressionist painter who had worked in Paris since 1949. His father was M. C...

The Levee District Police (French: Police du District de Levee) is the law enforcement agency responsible for the safety and protection of the Louisiana...

surge caused 53 levee breaches in the federally built levee system protecting metro New Orleans and the failure of the 40 Arpent Canal levee. Failures occurred...

Levee Town is an American blues rock group, formed in 2002 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Over the past two decades, Levee Town have self-released...

into the channel and creates natural levees. This initial levee allows for the building of a more complex levee and channel. As the lava flows through...

The Zhongzhu Levee (Chinese: 中柱堤; pinyin: Zhōngzhù Dī) is a levee in Dongyin Township, Lienchiang County, Taiwan. It connects Xiyin Island and Dongyin...

Corps of Engineers built the levees, flooding devastated homes, businesses, and agriculture. Since the $748,000 levees were constructed in 1949, there...

Levee camps constructed from the early 1800s to the 1930s were originally initiated to create a system of man made levees along the Mississippi river...

John Luca Levee (born 21 February 1997) is a Jamaican footballer who plays as a midfielder for Dulwich Hamlet. Levee started his career at Real Mona, before...

"American Pie" is a song by American singer and songwriter Don McLean. Recorded and released in 1971 on the album of the same name, the single was the...

Battle of Kremmer Levee took place during Uckermark War, on 24 October 1412, on the Kremmer Levee, near the village of Kremmen. It was fought by forces...

Railroad" is an American folk song. The first published version appeared as "Levee Song" in Carmina Princetonia, a book of Princeton University songs published...

West Quincy levee. By July 16, the river had stopped rising and had dropped 1.5 feet (46 cm) below the levee. That night, however, the levee unexpectedly...

Battle of Kremmer Levee was a final battle of Brandenburg–Pomeranian War, fought on 1 August 1332, on the Kremmer Levee, near the village of Kremmen....

Levee Blues is the second album from American band Potliquor released in 1971. Work on Levee Blues began in February 1971 at Deep South Recording Studio...

The New Orleans Levee was a New Orleans–based, American satire publication founded by editor and publisher Rudy Matthew Vorkapic. It printed 25,000 copies...

other musicians find Levee's behavior disrespectful to Ma. Teased by the rest of the band about his ability to deal with white men, Levee relates how his mother...

over 160 levee failures in the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta. These numbers include multiple failures of a single levee structure. Levee failures...