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Opelousas

American  
[op-uh-loo-suhs] / ˌɒp əˈlu səs /

noun

  1. a city in S Louisiana.


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Cravins, now an attorney in Opelousas, led the request to remove the statue with the support of retired Opelousas City Court Judge Vanessa Harris.

From Seattle Times Apr. 21, 2022

Steely gray skies were barely visible through the stretch of oak trees lining Opelousas Avenue.

From New York Times Aug. 29, 2021

Raised on a farm in the small town of Opelousas in south-central Louisiana, Prudhomme took over the kitchen at the haute-Creole Commander’s Palace in New Orleans in 1975 and quickly reinvented the gumbo there.

From Washington Post Oct. 8, 2019

“Seeing the church in the condition it is now, it’s almost like losing a family member,” Monica Harris, a member of Greater Union Baptist Church in Opelousas, told The New York Times.

From Washington Times Apr. 17, 2019

Weitzel marched from Opelousas at five o'clock the same afternoon, and Emory's division under Paine followed on the morning of the 5th.

From History of the Nineteenth Army Corps by Richard B. (Richard Biddle) Irwin

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