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A village of scattered dwellings.

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Usage examples (8)
  • Paris: 1990; Le shtetl: la bourgade juive de Pologne de la tradition à la modernité.
  • What she owned was a much more modest country house at Neauphle-le-Château, a historical bourgade forty-five minutes west of Paris where there was once a fortified castle.
  • Le mariage de Chelsea Clinton agite une bourgade américaine
  • He put money in his pocket (heaven knows how), for by 1597 he was bargaining for the best house in his native bourgade.
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