All 3 Uses of
frontier
in
Babbitt
- Moccasins-six-gun-frontier town-gamblers—sleep under the stars—be a regular man, with he-men like Joe Paradise—gosh!†
Chpt 25
- Down those wide endless streets the wind rattled between the rows of wooden houses, and the whole Bellevue district seemed a frontier town.†
Chpt 29
- That afternoon three men shouldered into Babbitt's office with the air of a Vigilante committee in frontier days.†
Chpt 32 *
Definition:
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(frontier as in: the frontier of brain science) the most recent understandings and achievements in a changing field