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vicinage

[ vis-uh-nij ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

vicinage

/ ˈvɪsənɪdʒ /

1275–1325; < Latin vīcīn ( us ) near ( vicinity ) + -age; replacing Middle English vesinage < Middle French < Latin, as above

C14: from Old French vicenage, from vicin neighbouring, from Latin vīcīnus; see vicinity

After many days of wolfish travel he saw signs of the vicinage of the Shoshone Indians.

The conception of a pomoerium as a "vicinage attached to" a city, appears to be something quite novel and original.

I 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.

Our law provided but a precarious and uncomfortable niche for them under the rubric common pur cause de vicinage.

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[gal-uh-maw-free ]

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