outskirt[noun]Synonyms: environs, purlieus, suburbs
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outskirt noun & verb.
[as noun 'aʊtskǝ:t, as verb aʊt'skǝ:t] L16.[from OUT- + SKIRT noun.]A. noun. (An area within) an outer border or fringe. Now
esp. in
pl., the outer border of a town, city, district, etc.
L16.■ T. Hardy The outskirt of the garden..had been left uncultivated. ■ Hugh Walpole She..lived in a little green house..in the Polchester outskirts. ■ E. Templeton The new villa on the outskirts of the town. fig.:
■ C. Lamb The remote edges and outskirts of history. ■ E. Wharton A social outskirt which Lily had always..avoided.b. verb trans. Skirt, border; pass along the outskirts of.
E19. ■ outskirter noun (
rare) a person on the outskirts of an area, subject, etc.
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