Meanings
- uncountableThe state of being a borough
The Gazette began before boroughhood and has continued along successive decades.
1922, George Thornton Flemming, History of Pittsburgh and its Environs, page 3482 more examples
In the days of its close boroughhood, it had owned but one mind, and that a little one ; it had now a thousand ; and each, in its own conceit, gigantic.
1850, Catherine Grace Frances, The Hamiltons, or, Official life in 1830, page 353Hmm, 'Park Slope, New York' again. That's two votes for Park Slope boroughhood. Message to residents of Cobble Hill, New York: get with it!
1988 April, the Editor, Spy Magazine, page 23
Origin
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