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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Oasis \O"as*is\ ([=o]"[.a]*s[i^]s or [-o]*[=a]"s[i^]s; 277), n.;
pl {Oases} (-s[=e]z). [L., fr Gr 'o`asis; cf Copt.
ouahe.]
A fertile or green spot in a waste or desert, esp. in a sandy
desert.
My one oasis in the dust and drouth Of city life.
--Tennyson.
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