Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗The Southern United States, especially the former Confederate States. · The southwestern corner of Utah. · A female given name transferred from the place name. · A populated place in Maricopa County, Arizona.
First attested in 1859. Unknown, but may come from the Mason-Dixon line, the boundary between the northern states and the southern states, or from the slang term dixie for a Louisiana $10 bill (equivalent to English tenner), in turn from French dix (ten).
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