citie

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A form of city — A large settlement, bigger than a town; sometimes with a specific legal definition, depending on the place.

UncommonScrabble 7

Meanings

nouncitie (plural cities)

plural cities

  1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of city.

    Ah, knovv you not the Citie fauours them, / And they haue troupes of Souldiers at their beck?

    c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 147, column 2
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