outvillage

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noun

An outlying village.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

nounoutvillage (plural outvillages)

plural outvillages

  1. An outlying village.

    I had gone, with one of the good women on our compound, to visit a sick woman who had been brought in from an outvillage.

    1942, Florence (Bingham) Crooks, Tales of Thailand (page 135)
    1 more example

    The sickness in the out-villages spread, the Bazar was put out of bounds, and then came the news that the Tail Twisters must go into camp.

    1889, Rudyard Kipling, “Only A Subaltern”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 143

Origin

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