Meanings
plural outvillages
- 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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