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By-place

By-place \By"-place`\, n. A retired or private place.

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by-place

n. A retired place, spot, or situation.

Usage examples of "by-place".

Many in Mansoul that were women, both young and old, they forced, ravished, and beastlike abused, so that they swooned, miscarried, and many of them died, and so lay at the top of every street, and in all by-places of the town.