The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 10 letter word PROVENANCE
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result PROVENANCE
- Work history, a year in France in its southern region
- Origin of man? Start off in south-eastern France
- Source established beyond doubt by an English church
- Source established beyond doubt — one of the forebears half forgotten
- Source of article dividing French region
- Source of year abroad in French region
- Source's established a new case has been emptied
- Skip lying about oven’s origin
- Origin of a name adopted by region in France
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The straight part
We know that "Source" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case source = provenance.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does PROVENANCE mean?
PROVENANCE noun- Place or source of origin.
- The place and time of origin of some artifact or other object. See Usage note below.
- The history of ownership of a work of art
- The copy history of a piece of data, or the intermediate pieces of data utilized to compute a final data element, as in a database record or web site (data provenance)
- The execution history of computer processes which were utilized to compute a final piece of data (process provenance)
- (of a person) Background; history; place of origin
- To establish the provenance of something