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Outskirt   /ˈaʊtskˌərt/   Listen
Outskirt

noun
1.
A part of the city far removed from the center.  Synonym: fringe.






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"Outskirt" Quotes from Famous Books



... dismissed her carriage, with orders to the coachman to put up his horses at a certain livery stable, and to meet her at the same place at a specified time. Then she went away on foot, and drew a thick veil over her face before hiring a cab in which she drove up to the outskirt on which Pratt had his lodging. She was still veiled when Pratt's landlady showed ...
— The Talleyrand Maxim • J. S. Fletcher

... best buy and sell in winters, added to the few hundred dollars patrimony they each inherited, were enabled, in a few years, to realize the object of their early ambition, in the opening of a small retail store, in one of the little outskirt villages of ...
— Gaut Gurley • D. P. Thompson



Words linked to "Outskirt" :   suburbia, suburban area, fringe, suburb, city district



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