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back country

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back country
n
Austral and NZ land remote from a town or settled area
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Noun1.back countryback country - a remote and undeveloped area        
backwoods, boondocks, hinterland
rural area, country - an area outside of cities and towns; "his poetry celebrated the slower pace of life in the country"


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As it is, parts of her back country are enough to frighten one, they look so bony.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
As I live he's comparing notes; looking at his thigh bone; thinks the sun is in the thigh, or in the calf, or in the bowels, I suppose, as the old women talk Surgeon's Astronomy in the back country.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
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