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Lake that's the "true head" of the Mississippi
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itasca
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Itasca is a word coined by Henry Schoolcraft as a name for Lake Itasca , the source of the Mississippi River . Schoolcraft coined the name from a combination of the Latin words ver itas ("truth") and ca put ("head"). The following places and ships have ...
Usage examples of itasca.
They’d had a nice rambling stone-and-redwood home on Blueberry Lake south of Itasca, and his father had been big in Rotary and the Legion.
I'm the one interested in the Itasca Sunflyer, you know, the one with the slide-out bedroom and Corian countertops?
Afterward, the head of the Department of Ancient History explained the president to be more of a Minnesotan than a classical scholar and since Lake Itasca was the point of origin of the mighty Mississippi, the slip of the tongue was a natural one.