Definitions
Outer areas at the edge of a town or city.
Word origin
From out- + skirts.
Used in a sentence
“He lived on the outskirts of Paris for a time.”
“More than 100 men, wearing white T-shirts and wielding sticks and clubs, stormed the station in Yuen Long, on Hong Kong’s northwestern outskirts, and assaulted people, including passengers on a subway car.”
“Viktor is monitoring the brigade’s area of responsibility by watching a livestream from a drone flying somewhere over the outskirts of Kostyantynivka on his smartphone.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Town edges”9 letters
02“City edge”9 letters
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