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Bible Belt

The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | © The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English 2009, originally published by Oxford University Press 2009. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Bi·ble Belt • n. (the Bible Belt) inf. those areas of the southern and midwestern U.S. and western Canada where Protestant fundamentalism is widely practiced.

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