OUTSKIRTS

outskirts

(noun) outlying areas (as of a city or town); “they lived on the outskirts of Houston”; “they mingled in the outskirts of the crowd”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology 1

Noun

outskirts pl (plural only)

The area surrounding a city or town; suburb.

Etymology 2

Noun

outskirts

plural of outskirt

Source: Wiktionary


OUTSKIRT

Out"skirt`, n.

Definition: A part remote from the center; outer edge; border; -- usually in the plural; as, the outskirts of a town. Wordsworth. The outskirts of his march of mystery. Keble.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.

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