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n. The part or region remote from a central district, as of a city or town. Often used in the plural: on the outskirts of Paris.

n. a more remote part of a town or city; the periphery, environs; a suburb

n. A part remote from the center, and near the outer edge; border; -- usually in the plural.

n. A section or part that skirts, runs, or lies along the edge or boundary of a specified area; a border or border region; a purlieu: used chiefly in the plural: as, the outskirts of a forest or of a town; the outskirts of science.

To form an outskirt; skirt or run along the border of.

n. a part of the city far removed from the center

"On a recent Monday night in a working-class outskirt of Rio de Janeiro, Mr. Malafaia told some 3,000 worshippers spilling out of the aisles of his Assembly of God church that Ms. Rousseff had switched her abortion stance."

city district   

border    edge    suburb    purlieu   

skittle    ofsydney    city-area    rottenest    house-property       purlieu    ninepin    litter-strewn    milkmaid