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1
a point or place at which something is invented or provided
- historically, California has served as the fountainhead of that eclectic group of self-actualization movements known as the New Age
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2
the source from which something grows or develops
- a collection of lyrical ballads that became the fountainhead of a literary revolution
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The first known use of fountainhead was in 1585
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