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☆ forty-niner or Forty-Niner For′ty-Nin′er (fôrt′ē nīn′ər)

noun

a person who went to California in the gold rush of 1849

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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