yazoo

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

noun a river that rises in west central Mississippi and flows southwest to empty into the Mississippi River above Vicksburg

Named after the Yazoo River, a tributary of the Mississippi with this characteristic.

So I determined to get into the Yazoo below Fort Pemberton. — Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant
I'm from the Yazoo valley myself, an' if I hear of the young fellow I'll send him down this way. — The Rock of Chickamauga: A Story of the Western Crisis, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler
The north boundary of West Florida was (1764) a parallel of latitude through the junction of the Yazoo and Mississippi rivers. — A School History of the United States, John Bach McMaster

Yazoo River

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