Definitions
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- adjective rare Placed on the frontiers.
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- adjective Placed on the
frontiers .
Etymologies
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frontier + -ed
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Examples
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Indians decline to give their reasons for fearing the black men, but the fact remains that even a very bad Indian will give the mildest-mannered Negro imaginable all the room he wants, and to spare, as any old regular army soldier who has frontiered will tell you.
History of Negro Soldiers in the Spanish-American War, and Other Items of Interest Edward A. Johnson
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a number of jealously frontiered interstices in a large family -- all this forbade tame acceptance on her part of so ordinary and humble an origin as Francis Madigan's fatherhood connoted.
The Madigans Miriam Michelson 1906
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