hamlet
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The same defensive structure was rebuilt, a hamlet or farm was established on a nearby hilltop, and people were buried in a cemetery between the two areas.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026
Clever and ambitious, Debicki’s snob is itching for an excuse to leave this hamlet for the city.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
Just outside Spalding, The Ship Inn pub stands by the River Welland in the small hamlet of Surfleet Seas End.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
The smoke triggered evacuations in one Belgian village and two hamlets of a second -- with residents of the hamlet of Sourbrodt given the green light to return home on Monday night.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
I rambled round the hamlet, going sometimes to a little distance and returning again, for an hour or more.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
She’s tried them everywhere from McDonald’s to Michelin-starred haunts, in tony European hamlets and Midwestern hockey towns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
The smoke triggered evacuations in one Belgian village and two hamlets of a second -- with residents of the hamlet of Sourbrodt given the green light to return home on Monday night.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
This part of rural Victoria is dotted with small towns and hamlets, which may at first appear quite isolated.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2025
Farmers' homes in hamlets around the industrial town of Rohtak are suddenly in demand, doubling up as movie sets.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2024
Each hamlet was involved in a kaleidoscopically changing pattern of war and shifting alliances with all neighboring hamlets, regardless of whether the neighbors were Foré or speakers of a different language.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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