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golconda

(n): a source of great wealth (especially a mine)
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5 months ago rolig said:

I did too at first, or rather, I thought this was a misspelling of La Gioconda, Leo's girl.

5 months ago sionnach said:

And here I thought it was the Mona Lisa.

Weirdnet is certainly covering all the bases with its "a facility where something is available" definition.

5 months ago rolig said:

A town near Hyderabad, India, whose diamond mine was so famous it became a byword for a source of great wealth (as WordNet tells us).

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