vicinage

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Nor is vicinage necessary there, to distinguish the several customs of particular places, the whole country being as one neighborhood, and having the same tenures of land, usages and customs.

From The History of Virginia, in Four Parts by Beverley, Robert

All my time was occupied in thinking how to fool the one and keep out of sight of the other till I could make escape from their immediate vicinage.

From The Recipe for Diamonds by Hyne, Charles John Cutcliffe Wright

Their achievements are necessarily confined to the vicinage of cities or manufacturing villages.

From What I know of farming: a series of brief and plain expositions of practical agriculture as an art based upon science by Greeley, Horace

On the next block of the same street stood the home of Smollett,Smollett which was removed the year that Carlyle came to dwell in the vicinage.

From A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors by Wolfe, Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen)

This vicinage has been the delight of artists from the time of Gainsborough, and is still a favorite sketching ground: here lived Collins and Blake, and Constable dwelt not far away.

From A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors by Wolfe, Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen)