vicinage
Americannoun
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the region near or about a place; vicinity.
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a particular neighborhood or district, or the people belonging to it.
noun
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the residents of a particular neighbourhood
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a less common word for vicinity
Etymology
Origin of vicinage
1275–1325; < Latin vīcīn ( us ) near ( see vicinity) + -age; replacing Middle English vesinage < Middle French < Latin, as above
Example Sentences
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The first trade was by barter, after which, some one or more commodities attainable in the vicinage, and in general use and demand were selected as the common media through which all exchanges were filtered.
From Money: Speech of Hon. John P. Jones, of Nevada, On the Free Coinage of Silver; in the United States Senate, May 12 and 13, 1890 by John P. (John Percival) Jones
All my time was occupied in thinking how to fool the one and keep out of sight of the other till I could make escape from their immediate vicinage.
From The Recipe for Diamonds by Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne
Their achievements are necessarily confined to the vicinage of cities or manufacturing villages.
From What I know of farming: a series of brief and plain expositions of practical agriculture as an art based upon science by Horace Greeley
Nor is vicinage necessary there, to distinguish the several customs of particular places, the whole country being as one neighborhood, and having the same tenures of land, usages and customs.
From The History of Virginia, in Four Parts by Robert Beverley
It made him look handsomer, he was so composed; it made his vicinage pleasant, it was so peace-restoring.
From Shirley by Charlotte Brontë
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