vicinage [ vis-uh-nij ]
noun
1. the region near or about a place; vicinity.
2. a particular neighborhood or district, or the people belonging to it.
3. proximity.
WORDS RELATED TO VICINAGE
commune, community, department, locality, neighborhood, parish, precinct, region, section, sector, territory, district, zone, area, block, ghetto, part, slum, street, suburb
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Origin: 1275–1325; < Latin vīcīn(us) near (see vicinity) + -age; replacing Middle English vesinage < Middle French < Latin, as above
HOW TO USE VICINAGE IN A SENTENCE
After many days of wolfish travel he saw signs of the vicinage of the Shoshone Indians.
THE WAY OF AN INDIAN|FREDERIC REMINGTON
The conception of a pomoerium as a "vicinage attached to" a city, appears to be something quite novel and original.
COLLECTED ESSAYS, VOLUME V|T. H. HUXLEY
I should have supposed it meant a narrower locality and would apply to a city or town—a vicinage.
PAPERS AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWENTY-THIRD GENERAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION|VARIOUS
That the whipper-snappers of the vicinage should indulge their propensities comes as the order of their nature.
MARSE HENRY (VOL. 1)|HENRY WATTERSON
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