The weekly levee was practically abandoned.
Whenever a river floods, it has a tendency to raise a levee beside its banks.
The Louisiana Board of Levee Commissioners was organized in 1865.
He had been nearly two years and a half in seclusion when, in July 1769, he again appeared in public at a royal levee.
Nor is it in the sphere of taxation alone that Williams organization of the realm stands on the old English customs. In the military sphere, though his normal army is the feudal force composed of the tenants-in-chief and the knights whom they have enfeoffed, he retains the power to call out the fyrd, the old national levee en masse, without regard to whether its members are freemen or villeins of some lord.