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

Cohen was raised in the village of Lawrence, in the Five Towns section of Long Island, in the shadow of John F Kennedy airport.

From The Guardian ● May 26, 2018

The local atmosphere of the Five Towns was established with less delay over detail than is customary in this kind.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 25, 1914 by Various