vicinage

noun /ˈvɪsɪnɪdʒ/

1. A surrounding district; a neighbourhood.

   archaic, countable, uncountable

   She is the only flower of fragrance that has blown in this vicinage for ten years past, or will for ten years to come […].

2. The people of a neighbourhood.

   archaic, countable, uncountable

3. The state of living near something; proximity, closeness.

   countable, uncountable

   In the few years that she had lived here, a stranger herself, in some sort—not accustomed, as was her husband, to a lifelong vicinage to the pygmy burial-ground—she had developed no receptivity to that uncanny idea of a race of dwarfs.

4. The area where a crime was committed, a trial is being held, or the community from which jurors are drawn.

   countable, uncountable

Where it comes from

From Old French visnage, respelled to more closer match its Latin source vīcīnus (“neighbor”). By surface analysis, vicine + -age.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry vicinage (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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