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Des Plaines (des plānz′)

city in NE Ill.: suburb of Chicago: pop. 59,000

Etymology: prob. in allusion to the sugar maples (plaines in Miss. Valley Fr) once there

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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