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out⋅skirt

  [out-skurt]
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–noun
1. Often, outskirts. the outlying district or region, as of a city, metropolitan area, or the like: to live on the outskirts of town; a sparsely populated outskirt.
2. Usually, outskirts. the border or fringes of a specified quality, condition, or the like: the outskirts of respectability.
Origin:
1590–1600; out- + skirt
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out·skirt   (out'skûrt')   
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.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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outskirt 
"outer border," 1596, from out + skirt (q.v.). Now only in plural. Originally in Spenser.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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