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precinct Noun 1. Brit, Austral & S African an area in a town closed to traffic: a shopping precinct 2. Brit, Austral & S African an enclosed area around a building 3. US an administrative area of a city [Latin praecingere to surround]
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precinct Translationsprecincts npl → recinto; pedestrian precinct (BRIT) → zona peatonal; (US) (= district); circonscription f, arrondissement m; precincts npl (= neighbourhood) → alentours mpl, environs mpl; pedestrian precinct (Brit) → zone piétonnière; shopping precinct (Brit) → centre commercial precincts npl [of cathedral, palace] → Gelände nt; shopping precinct (Brit) → Einkaufsviertel nt; (under cover) → Einkaufscenter nt (US) (= district); circoscrizione f; precincts npl (= neighbourhood) → dintorni mpl; vicinanze fpl; shopping precinct (BRIT) → centro commerciale |
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| Some while after, she thought fit to go into the forbidden precinct of Zeus, not knowing the law, and being pursued by her own son and the Arcadians, was about to be killed because of the said law; but Zeus delivered her because of her connection with him and put her among the stars, giving her the name Bear because of the misfortune which had befallen her. Not old enough even to leave his father's grass roof and sleep in the youths' canoe house, much less to sleep with the young bachelors in their canoe house, he knew that he took his life, with all of its dimly guessed mysteries and arrogances, in his hand thus to trespass into the sacred precinct of the full-made, full-realized, full- statured men of Somo. The blinds were always down, and her barefooted tribe was never permitted to enter the sacred precinct save on state occasions. |
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