vicinage

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A higher mark of distinction she could not show—she who in general scorned visiting and tea-drinking, and held cheap and stigmatized as "gossips" every maid and matron of the vicinage.

From Shirley by Brontë, Charlotte

Their achievements are necessarily confined to the vicinage of cities or manufacturing villages.

From What I know of farming: a series of brief and plain expositions of practical agriculture as an art based upon science by Greeley, Horace

Defendant now contends that he is entitled to common, pour cause de vicinage.

From Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. by Warren, Samuel

And made its hated rival Lowville, two miles to its north, the county seat and chief village of the vicinage.

From The Story of the Rome, Watertown, and Ogdensburg RailRoad by Hungerford, Edward

First impressions—A hero of the "Three Days"—Children's ball—Life in New-Orleans—A French supper—Omnibuses—Chartres-street at twilight—Calaboose—Guard-house—The vicinage of a theatre—French cafés—Scenes in the interior of a café—Dominos—Tobacco-smokers—New-Orleans society.

From The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 1 by Ingraham, Joseph Holt