noun
Street Slang
parish
· noun · nola
Louisiana's word for what every other US state calls a county.
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Louisiana is the only state that doesn't have counties — it has 64 parishes. Same governmental unit, different name, inherited from the days when the Catholic Church carved up the colony into ecclesiastical districts that later became civil boundaries. Orleans Parish = the city of New Orleans.
“She's a deputy in Jefferson Parish, right across the line from Orleans.”
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parish In A Sentence
She's a deputy in Jefferson Parish, right across the line from Orleans.
Origin & Usage
A legacy of Louisiana's French and Spanish Catholic colonial period; formally adopted as a civil designation when Louisiana became a US territory in 1805.
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