Artesia

American  

[ahr-tee-zhuh] / ɑrˈti ʒə /

noun

1. a city in S California.

2. a city in SE New Mexico.

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Example Sentences

Channel Islands at Artesia, 5 p.m.

From Los Angeles Times

It all began through the first decades of the 20th century, when good-sized pieces of land in southeast LA County could be had for not much money, and there was water for agriculture — Artesia was named for its artesian wells — and specifically crops to feed the cows.

From Los Angeles Times

In 1985, more than three dozen deaths in California — including stillbirths and fetuses lost to miscarriage – were blamed on listeriosis from soft cheeses produced by an Artesia company named Jalisco Mexican Products.

From Los Angeles Times

Dulles, delivered the same day, Chief Justice Warren wrote on behalf of the majority that “Petitioner was born in Artesia, California, in 1916. By reason of that fact, he was a citizen of the United States.”

From Slate

Inches of rain also covered a section of Artesia Boulevard in Redondo Beach and a road in a Huntington Beach neighborhood, KABC-TV Channel 7 reported.

From Los Angeles Times