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Rushmore definition

Rush·more (rus̸h′môr′)

mountain in the Black Hills, W S.Dak., on which are carved huge heads (60 ft, 18 m, high) of U.S. presidents Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, & Theodore Roosevelt: 6,200 ft (1,890 m)

Etymology: after C. E. Rushmore, N.Y. mining attorney

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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