Levee (disambiguation)

Levee or levée comes from the French verb lever, meaning "getting up" or "rising". It has two main meanings:

• Levée (ceremony), formal ceremonial "risings" of a monarch from his bed each morning to meet with privileged people in relative privacy, which evolved into several different forms of state ceremonies in various countries
• Levee, a "rising" on a river bank, either one formed naturally by the periodic flooding of rivers or a man-made barrier created to control floods

Events

• Levée en masse, a forced, mass conscription to raise a military force
• New Year's levee a social event hosted by various Canadian dignitaries and institutions on New Year's Day

Places

• Levee Township, Pike County, Illinois
• The Levee, former red-light district in Chicago, Illinois

People

• John Levee (1924–2017), American abstract artist
• M. C. Levee (1891–1972), American film executive

Other uses

• Levee (horse), a Kentucky thoroughbred racehorse
• Levee Blues (1972), the second album from the American band Potliquor

See also

• Levy (disambiguation)