An embankment constructed to provide flooding; a continuous dike.
monarch's reception held after rising or, in Britain, for men only in the afternoon; American, river embankment; quay.
Naturally formed raised bank along the side of a river channel. When a river overflows its banks, the rate of flow is less than that in the channel, and silt is deposited on the banks. With each successive flood the levee increases in size so that eventually the river may be above the surface of the surrounding flood plain. Notable levees are found on the lower reaches of the Mississippi in the US and the Po in Italy.

To provide with a levee