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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
artesian /ɑːˈtiːzɪən, -ʒ(ə)n/

▶adjective relating to or denoting a well that is bored perpendicularly into water-bearing strata lying at an angle, so that water is supplied by natural pressure.

– origin C19: from Fr. artésien, ‘from Artois’, a region in France.

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