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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