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Definition
the outside boundary or surface of something;
or more rarely: outside the area of main activity
or more rarely: outside the area of main activity
- I helped him construct a sturdy stick barricade around the periphery so the jungle animals and village goats would not come in and wreck our tender vegetables when they came.Book 1 — Genesis (77% in)
- Just as they used to do when we first arrived here, they materialized one by one out of the moist air and the bamboo thickets until they'd formed a silent, watchful circle around the periphery of our yard.Book 4 — Bel and the Serpent (94% in)
There are no more uses of "periphery" in The Poisonwood Bible.
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