Well attestedNamed from the place
Vauclusian spring
noun · first attested 19th century
A whole class of springs named after one hole in Provence.
A karst spring where water rises under pressure up a deep flooded shaft instead of seeping from a hillside.
43.9222°N 5.1269°E · Q463304
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- Named from the place
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- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
- Attested
- 19th century
- Part of speech
- noun
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Fontaine-de-Vaucluse
- In English
Vauclusian spring
The Fontaine de Vaucluse pours out at the foot of a cliff near Avignon, and a remote submersible finally reached the floor of its shaft at roughly 300 meters in the 1980s. Hydrogeologists borrowed the name for any spring fed this way, so the term now describes water rising in Florida and in China.
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