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Definition of Outskirts
1. Noun. Outlying areas (as of a city or town). "They mingled in the outskirts of the crowd"
Definition of Outskirts
1. Noun. (plural of outskirt); the edges or areas around a city or town. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Outskirts
1. outskirt [n] - See also: outskirt
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outskirts
Literary usage of Outskirts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mathematical and Physical Papers by Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Baron John William Strutt Rayleigh (1905)
"THE motion at the outskirts of the solitary wave can be represented by a very
simple formula. Considering a progressive wave travelling in the direction of ..."
2. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1884)
"THE outskirts OF PHYSICAL SCIENCE.*—This interesting and helpful little book is
... The outskirts of Physical Science. Essays Philosophical and Religious. ..."
3. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1884)
"THE outskirts OF PHYSICAL SCIENCE.*—This interesting and helpful little book is
designed and adapted for ..."
4. The Howadji in Syria by George William Curtis (1852)
"outskirts. WITH the first swing of the camel, Egypt and the Nile began to recede
... We paced through the outskirts of the city. The streets were narrow and ..."
5. Reports of State Trials: New Seriesby Great Britain State Trials Committee, John Macdonell, John Edward Power Wallis by Great Britain State Trials Committee, John Macdonell, John Edward Power Wallis (1888)
"You say he spoke about five or ten minutes. What then happened ?—The first thing
at all that happened was a slight disorder in the outskirts of the meeting. ..."
6. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"On the outskirts of this central group, over the wooded and rocky highlands,
north and south of the great river, but more especially throughout the plateaus ..."
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