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borderland

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bor·der·land  (bôrdr-lnd)
n.
1.
a. Land located on or near a frontier.
b. The fringe: a shadowy figure who lived on the borderland of the drug scene.
2. An indeterminate area, situation, or condition: the borderland between sanity and insanity.
borderland
Noun
1. land located on or near a boundary
2. an indeterminate state or condition
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Noun1.borderland - district consisting of the area on either side of a border or boundary of a country or an area; "the Welsh marches between England and Wales"
border district, marchland, march
district, territorial dominion, territory, dominion - a region marked off for administrative or other purposes


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When I turned to look for my father he was gone, and in all the years that have passed no whisper of his fate has come across the borderland of conjecture from the realm of the unknown.
Can Such Things Be? by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
Her thought drew being from the obscure borderland.
Howards End by Forster, E. M. View in context
Fear of the primitive, borderland law, of which he had read highly colored, imaginary tales, had thrust him into the jungle a fugitive.
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