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View synonyms for vicinage
vicinage
[ vis-uh-nij ]
noun
- the region near or about a place; vicinity.
- a particular neighborhood or district, or the people belonging to it.
vicinage
/ ˈvɪsənɪdʒ /
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of vicinage1
C14: from Old French vicenage, from vicin neighbouring, from Latin vīcīnus; see vicinity
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Example Sentences
After many days of wolfish travel he saw signs of the vicinage of the Shoshone Indians.
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The conception of a pomoerium as a "vicinage attached to" a city, appears to be something quite novel and original.
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I should have supposed it meant a narrower locality and would apply to a city or town—a vicinage.
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That the whipper-snappers of the vicinage should indulge their propensities comes as the order of their nature.
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Our law provided but a precarious and uncomfortable niche for them under the rubric common pur cause de vicinage.
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