Definitions

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  • noun dialect, Louisiana A white crappie (Pomoxis annularis).

Etymologies

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From Choctaw sakli ("trout"), via Cajun French, which reinterpreted as sac ("sack") (à ("of")) lait ("milk").

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Examples

  • We fished for sac-a-lait and bass at Henderson Swamp and Bayou Benoit, and Clete tried to appear light-hearted and unaffected by his time in jail.

    Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set James Lee Burke 2002

  • He had dumped his cooler on a bait table at the end of the dock and was gutting a stringer of ice-flecked sac-a-lait and bream and bigmouth bass with a long, razor-edged knife that had no guard on the handle.

    Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set James Lee Burke 2002

  • He had dumped his cooler on a bait table at the end of the dock and was gutting a stringer of ice-flecked sac-a-lait and bream and bigmouth bass with a long, razor-edged knife that had no guard on the handle.

    Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set James Lee Burke 2002

  • He had dumped his cooler on a bait table at the end of the dock and was gutting a stringer of ice-flecked sac-a-lait and bream and bigmouth bass with a long, razor-edged knife that had no guard on the handle.

    Jolie Blon’s Bounce James Lee Burke 2002

  • He had dumped his cooler on a bait table at the end of the dock and was gutting a stringer of ice-flecked sac-a-lait and bream and bigmouth bass with a long, razor-edged knife that had no guard on the handle.

    Jolie Blon’s Bounce James Lee Burke 2002

  • We fished for sac-a-lait and bass at Henderson Swamp and Bayou Benoit, and Clete tried to appear light-hearted and unaffected by his time in jail.

    Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set James Lee Burke 2002

  • He had dumped his cooler on a bait table at the end of the dock and was gutting a stringer of ice-flecked sac-a-lait and bream and bigmouth bass with a long, razor-edged knife that had no guard on the handle.

    Jolie Blon’s Bounce James Lee Burke 2002

  • He had dumped his cooler on a bait table at the end of the dock and was gutting a stringer of ice-flecked sac-a-lait and bream and bigmouth bass with a long, razor-edged knife that had no guard on the handle.

    Jolie Blon’s Bounce James Lee Burke 2002

  • I sat at a wooden table not far from the bandstand, with a paper plate of rice and red beans and fried sac-a-lait, and watched the dancers and listened to the music while Annie took Alafair down the street to find a rest room.

    Heaven’s Prisoners James Lee Burke 1988

  • I sat at a wooden table not far from the bandstand, with a paper plate of rice and red beans and fried sac-a-lait, and watched the dancers and listened to the music while Annie took Alafair down the street to find a rest room.

    Heaven’s Prisoners James Lee Burke 1988

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