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city-born

adj. being or having the customs or manners or dress of a city person [syn: citified, cityfied, city-bred]

Usage examples of "city-born".

Visiting the dwarven warrens made the city-born orphan feel homesick, and yet at home.

Those worthies were probably still searching for wounded passengers along the fringe of the road, knowing anyone city-born would be afraid to venture into the Waste.

They’re almost all city-born, for a start: it’s a rare press-ganged who’s given a letter of pass.

The city-born were hardy, but every batch of press-ganged was afflicted with fevers and murrains on its first arrival, and several of their number inevitably died.