Five Towns

British  

noun

1. the name given in his fiction by Arnold Bennett to the Potteries towns (actually six in number) of Burslem, Fenton, Hanley, Longton, Stoke-upon-Trent, and Tunstall, now part of the city of Stoke-on-Trent

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Five Towns

Kominsky-Crumb was born on Long Island, in the suburb of Five Towns.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 1, 2022

He's like an upper-middle-class kid from the Five Towns of Long Island.

From Salon ● Jan. 28, 2020

A head-and-neck surgeon, he moved to New York, met Sondra, a nurse, whom he married, and settled with her in Lawrence, one of the Five Towns, on Long Island.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 29, 2019

The paintings were dark and caustic, but he had a knack for social networking dating back to his childhood in the Five Towns of Long Island, where one of his best friends was Donna Karan.

From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2019

In that neighbourhood the Knype and Mersey canal formed the western boundary of the industrialism of the Five Towns.

From Clayhanger by Bennett, Arnold