What is "bailiwicks"

Usage examples of "bailiwicks".

Fourteen towns of the bailiwicks of Franche-Comté form a patriotic league.

Bailiffs were allowed eight armsmen on their permanent payroll, but in tax time they hired as many as thirty toughs from other bailiwicks to help collect the taxes.

Indeed, the entertainment industry is one of the few bailiwicks where feminism is still taken seriously.

The mayor spoke to me of the power of the canton, its lordships and bailiwicks, and explained his own powers.

The way you make me go rampaging around other people's bailiwicks would give him an apoplectic stroke.

We will entirely remove from their bailiwicks, the relations of Gerard Athee (so that in future they shall have no bailiwick in England).

The heads of the language departments involved decided I had taken sufficient courses in their respective bailiwicks to warrant their certifying as to my reading abilities.