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sour⋅dough

  [souuhr-doh, sou-er-]
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–noun
1. leaven, esp. fermented dough retained from one baking and used, rather than fresh yeast, to start the next.
2. a prospector or pioneer, esp. in Alaska or Canada.
3. any longtime resident, esp. in Alaska or Canada.
–adjective
4. leavened with sourdough: sourdough bread.
Origin:
1275–1325; ME; see sour, dough
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sour·dough   (sour'dō')   
n.  

  1. Sour fermented dough used as leaven in making bread.

  2. An early settler or prospector, especially in Alaska and northwest Canada.


[Sense 2, from an association with using pieces of sourdough to leaven bread in the winter.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

sourdough 
1303, "fermented dough," from sour + dough. The meaning "Arctic prospector or pioneer" is from 1898 Yukon gold rush, from the practice of saving a lump of fermented dough as leaven for raising bread baked during the winter.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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