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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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
To separate them, Sir Robert quickly carried his family back to Nithsdale, but Douglas as quickly followed, and lurked in the vicinage for some months, clandestinely meeting his love among "Maxwelton's bonnie braes."
From A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors by Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen) Wolfe
It is communicated from one person to another by vicinage or by contact.
From Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Camille Flammarion
Under color of the authority of that office, and sustained by an armed band of adherents, he exercised despotic sway over the town and its vicinage.
From Our Southern Highlanders by Horace Kephart
The conception of a pomœrium as a "vicinage attached to" a city, appears to be something quite novel and original.
From Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions by Thomas H. Huxley
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