| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | bol·son |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  b l-sn |
| NOUN: | Chiefly Southwestern U.S. A flat arid valley surrounded by mountains and draining into a shallow central lake. | | ETYMOLOGY: | American Spanish bolsón, augmentative of Spanish bolsa, purse, pouch, from Late Latin bursa. See bursa.
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