outlying
noun C2- A region relatively remote from a central location.
Plural outlyings
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“The trains which traverse the lines of rail beside which the body was found are those which run from west to east, some being purely Metropolitan, and some from Willesden and outlying junctions.
A steep curve of heath-clad land, an outlying spur of the moor, lay in front of us.
We think, therefore, that he has gone, and the outlying farmers sleep the better in consequence.
Mortimer driving in his dog-cart over a rough moorland track which led from the outlying farmhouse of Foulmire.
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