machi

So, I guess, I'm an inaka girl at heart, but a machi girl in reality (especially if the machi is smallish).

THREE DEGREES OF SEPARATION: Sentimental Journey to Watsonville 2006

Update: commenter Paul said that "machi" isn't a foreign word (マチ), but is the reading (まち) for 襠!

gusset from machi mj 2008

But in this case, I really thought "machi" was a non-Japanese word.

gusset from machi mj 2008

Update: commenter Paul said that "machi" isn't a foreign word (マチ), but is the reading (まち) for 襠!

Busy having fun mj 2008

Now that I know the meaning, I still don't know what language "machi" comes from.

gusset from machi mj 2008

Now that I know the meaning, I still don't know what language "machi" comes from.

Busy having fun mj 2008

Some say the Germans mistook this village for another with a similar name, another Oradour whose Resistance fighters, the machi, had abducted an S.S. officer earlier in the week.

Rev. Timothy C. Geoffrion, Ph.D.: What We Must Never Forget About Genocide Ph.D. Rev. Timothy C. Geoffrion 2011

Europe is dense enough that a 5 GBP per flight airline can be successful (I was going to say $25 per flight, but I just checked the RyanAir website, hachi machi!).

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But what has taken place since is no return to sanity, as political machi nations have produced a cosmetic makeover called "PASS ID" that has revived the push for a national identification card.

Boing Boing 2009

Some say the Germans mistook this village for another with a similar name, another Oradour whose Resistance fighters, the machi, had abducted an S.S. officer earlier in the week.

Rev. Timothy C. Geoffrion, Ph.D.: What We Must Never Forget About Genocide Ph.D. Rev. Timothy C. Geoffrion 2011