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levee

• (n.) The act of rising.
• (n.) A morning assembly or reception of visitors, -- in distinction from a soiree, or evening assembly
• a matinee
• hence, also, any general or somewhat miscellaneous gathering of guests, whether in the daytime or evening
• as, the president's levee.
• (v. t.) To attend the levee or levees of.
• (n.) An embankment to prevent inundation
• as, the levees along the Mississippi
• sometimes, the steep bank of a river.
• (v. t.) To keep within a channel by means of levees
• as, to levee a river.

 

levee en masse

• See Levy in mass, under Levy, n.

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