Hypertext Webster Gateway: "outskirt"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Outskirt \Out"skirt`\, n.
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
outskirt
n : a part of the city far removed from the center; "they built
a factory on the outskirts of the city" [syn: {fringe}]
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