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: July 11, 2024
\FOUN-tun-hed\ noun
What It Means
Fountainhead is a word usually encountered in literary contexts that refers to the origin or source of something.
// Ragtime, popularized by such performers as Scott Joplin and Eubie Blake, is considered one of the musical fountainheads of jazz.
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