Meanings
- pluralplural of countryside
There must be something inside the city worth walking to or riding to, otherwise people would remain scattered through the countrysides.
2008, Thomas Sowell, Economic Facts and Fallacies, Basic Books,, →ISBN, page 142 more examples
But where the Diſſenters were numerous, great bands of Legal Robbers were ſent to exact & extort theſe exorbitant fines, by plundering, quartering, beating, wounding, binding men like beaſts, chaſing away from houſes, and harraſſing whole Countryſides, in a hideous manner.
1687, Alexander Shields, A Hind Let Looſe, page 184Some of these designs were amazing, covering a person’s whole back. There were dozens—dragons, historical scenes, countrysides, ornate scrollwork…
2009, Peter Lerangis, The Sword Thief, Scholastic Inc.,, →ISBN, page 40
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