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outskirt

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out·skirt  (outskûrt)
n.
The part or region remote from a central district, as of a city or town. Often used in the plural: on the outskirts of Paris.
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Noun1.outskirt - a part of the city far removed from the centeroutskirt - a part of the city far removed from the center; "they built a factory on the outskirts of the city"
city district - a district of a town or city
suburb, suburban area, suburbia - a residential district located on the outskirts of a city


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This or this is but outskirt and far-off reflection and echo of the triumph that has passed by and is now at its glancing splendor and heyday, perchance in the neighboring fields, or, if you stand in the field, then in the adjacent woods.
I had always lived with my grandmother on the outskirts of the plantation, where she was put to raise the children of the younger women.
The soldiers had made the people on the outskirts of Horsell lock up and leave their houses.
 
 
 
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