suburbanness

The spot, however, was very likely twenty-five years since a pleasant little bit of rural suburbanness, and still, until the recent railway changes, retained, to an eye able to see it, something of its old character in the little detached cottages, with the little patches of garden before most of them.

1865 November 28, “Mr. Dickens's Romance of a Dust-Heap”, in The Eclectic Review, volume 9, number 53