outskirt Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a part of the city far removed from the center
    fringe.
    • they built a factory on the outskirts of the city

WordNet

Out"skirt` noun
Definitions
  1. A part remote from the center; outer edge; border; -- usually in the plural; as, the outskirts of a town. Wordsworth.
    The outskirts of his march of mystery. Keble.

Webster 1913