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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A city of north-central California near Sacramento. It is the site of Folsom State Prison (opened 1880).
  • A village of northeast New Mexico near the Colorado border.
  • adjective Of or relating to a culture that flourished in western North America east of the Rocky Mountains during the late Pleistocene Epoch, notable chiefly for the use of grooved, leaf-shaped flint projectile points.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[After Folsom, New Mexico, where artifacts belonging to the culture were found.]

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