The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vicinage \Vic"i*nage\ (?; 48), n. [OF. veisinage, F. voisinage,
from OF. veisin, F. voisin, neighboring, a neighbor, L.
vicunus. See Vicinity.]
The place or places adjoining or near; neighborhood;
vicinity; as, a jury must be of the vicinage. ``To summon the
Protestant gentleman of the vicinage.''
--Macaulay.
Civil war had broken up all the usual ties of vicinage
and good neighborhood.
--Sir W.
Scott.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"a neighborhood," early 14c., from Old French visenage, from Latin vicinus (see vicinity).
Wiktionary
n. (context now rare English) A surrounding district; a neighbourhood.
Usage examples of "vicinage".
Lady Margalit, if you keep much company with Jonan, one thing is sure you will never suffer boredom Life in his vicinage is one dire endangerment after another.
In the erection of this elegant structure all the carpenters and masons in the vicinage were employed, so that it grew up with an amazing rapidity.
The summer before, our colored cook, accompanied by a little girl of the vicinage, was picking berries there one day, when a bear came out of the woods, and walked towards them.
Yes -- just one of your tricks: not to send for a carriage, and come clattering over street and road like a common mortal, but to steal into the vicinage of your home along with twilight, just as if you were a dream or a shade.
He complains of the destruction of the large trees in his vicinage, regretting that those who own the neighbouring woods should be impelled to bring down, first, the oldest and finest timber, and should be unable to preserve even so much of it as might illustrate hereafter the magnificent proportions of the native forest wood.
When one finds them driven to frenzies by the merits of the saints, and weeping over the sorrows of the heathen, and rushing out to haul the whole vicinage up to grace, and spending hours on their knees in hysterical abasement before the heavenly throne, it is quite safe to assume, even without an actual visit, that the ecclesiastic who has worked the miracle is a fair and toothsome fellow, and a good deal more aphrodisiacal than learned.
Judge of the Circuit Court should determine, in case of dispute, what name should be put on the roll of the House of Representatives, in the beginning, subject to the Constitutional power of the House to correct it, and that a moderate punishment for bribery, intimidation and fraud, on indictment and conviction by a jury of the vicinage, should be imposed.
Piercing, fragrant, and grateful in its odor, it operates not unlike a mild stimulant, when respired for any length of time, and is found chiefly near the borders of small streams and in the vicinage of the Tassada.
Thus only might a man uphold his reputation for bravery in the vicinage of Grand Avenue.
After tea, a walk was taken, and the vicinage of New Paltz duly inspected.
These were to be of his vicinage, but not bound to him by the tie whether of blood or marriage.