Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A group of villages.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Villages; a district of villages.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
district ofvillages .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The fairy asked Puck if he was not the knavish spirit that frightened the maidens of the villagery, that skimmed milk, and sometimes laboured in the green, and bootless made the housewife churn, and sometimes made the drink to bear no barm, and whether Puck did not mislead night wanderers, and then laugh at their harm, and do the work of hobgoblins?
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He had no taste for more cheerful images, and there are neither rural objects nor villagery in the scenes he describes, but only loneness and the solemnity of mountains.
The Life of Lord Byron Galt, John, 1779-1839 1830
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You cannot proceed a mile without starting a steeple, with its little patch of villagery round it, enverduring the waste.
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb Mary Lamb 1805
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