villagery
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of villagery
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You cannot proceed a mile without starting a steeple, with its little patch of villagery round it, enverduring the waste.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
A fairy, in another passage, asks Robin: “Are you not he That frights the maidens of the villagery, ***** Mislead night-wanderers, laughing at their harm?”
From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer
He had no taste for more cheerful images, and there are neither rural objects nor villagery in the scenes he describes, but only loneness and the solemnity of mountains.
From The Life of Lord Byron by John Galt
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