vicinage
the region near or about a place; vicinity.
a particular neighborhood or district, or the people belonging to it.
Origin of vicinage
1Words Nearby vicinage
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How to use vicinage in a sentence
After many days of wolfish travel he saw signs of the vicinage of the Shoshone Indians.
The Way of an Indian | Frederic RemingtonThe conception of a pomoerium as a "vicinage attached to" a city, appears to be something quite novel and original.
Collected Essays, Volume V | T. H. HuxleyI should have supposed it meant a narrower locality and would apply to a city or town—a vicinage.
That the whipper-snappers of the vicinage should indulge their propensities comes as the order of their nature.
Marse Henry (Vol. 1) | Henry WattersonOur law provided but a precarious and uncomfortable niche for them under the rubric common pur cause de vicinage.
Domesday Book and Beyond | Frederic William Maitland
British Dictionary definitions for vicinage
/ (ˈvɪsənɪdʒ) /
Origin of vicinage
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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