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Finger Lakes

American  

plural noun

  1. a group of elongated glacial lakes in central and W New York: resort region.


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This city within the Finger Lakes region is said to have held the first-ever Porchfest in 2007.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

The grape is also grown in places like New York’s Finger Lakes, the Pacific Northwest and in Eastern Europe, but Austria is where it thrives best.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

“The spotted lanternfly is knocking at the doors of vineyards in Long Island and the Finger Lakes region,” Professor Urban said.

From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2023

This is what an AQI over 400 looks like, filmed from a boat on Keuka Lake, one of New York's Finger Lakes.

From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2023

Taking up agriculture, the Finger Lakes people, by now consolidated into five main groups, lined the region’s hills with farms.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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