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outskirts
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[ noun ] (geography) outlying areas (as of a city or town)
Examples "they lived on the outskirts of Houston" or "they mingled in the outskirts of the crowd" Used in print (Glayds H. Barr, The Master of Geneva....)On the outskirts of the rabble the Camaret brothers and Gaspard_Favre shook their fists . (Octavia Waldo, A Cup of the Sun....)For all he saw or cared to see , this could have been a town in Italy , not the outskirts of Philadelphia . Related terms |
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