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Fond du Lac

[ fon duh lak, joo lak ]
/ ˈfɒn də ˌlæk, dʒʊ ˌlæk /

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a city in E Wisconsin, on Lake Winnebago.

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Examples from the Web for fond du lac

  • In two years, the rail will be finished to Fond-du-Lac, and you will be enabled to get here in eleven days.

    Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 454|Various

  • A trader at Fond-du-Lac had a very remarkable carved Indian pipe, for which he asked me fifteen dollars.

    Memoirs|Charles Godfrey Leland