Hypertext Webster Gateway: "playa"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Playa \Pla"ya\, n. [Sp.]
A beach; a strand; in the plains and deserts of Texas, New
Mexico, and Arizona, a broad, level spot, on which
subsequently becomes dry by evaporation. --Bartlett.
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