1. A city of north-central California near Sacramento. It is the site of Folsom State Prison (opened 1880). 2. A village of northeast New Mexico near the Colorado border. |
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adj. Of or relating to a culture that flourished in western North America east of the Rocky Mountains during the late Pleistocene Epoch, notable chiefly for the use of grooved, leaf-shaped flint projectile points. [After FOLSOM1, New Mexico, where artifacts belonging to the culture were found.] |
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