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Dixie definition

Dixie (dik′sē)

the Southern states of the U.S. collectively; Dixieland

Etymology: < Dixie (earlier, Dixie's Land), title of song (1859) by Daniel D. Emmett (1815-1904), U.S. songwriter, after Dixie, orig. name of a Negro character in a minstrel play (1850)

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