Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Vicinage; neighborhood.

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Examples

  • Read about neighborliness, or les rapports de bon voisinage, in today's story column, written by one of my favorite in-laws, Tante Marie-Françoise.

    Lettres de ma Terrasse 2009

  • In another more personal case, a neighbor has erected a chicken pen about 20 feet from my dining room window, and we think we may have a cause of action (in France there is a large body of law about “troubles de voisinage” (neighbor difficulties)).

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Whither Private Property 2010

  • Read about neighborliness, or les rapports de bon voisinage, in today's story column, written by one of my favorite in-laws, Tante Marie-Françoise.

    Tante Marie-Francoise 2009

  • Good fences make good neighbors proverbe du XVIIe siècle, mais rendu célèbre par le poème “Mending Wall” de Robert Frost : une bonne clôture garantit de bonnes relations de voisinage.

    Archive 2010-06-01 Rene Meertens 2010

  • Read about neighborliness, or les rapports de bon voisinage, in today's story column, written by one of my favorite in-laws, Tante Marie-Françoise.

    Tante Marie-Francoise 2009

  • Read about neighborliness, or les rapports de bon voisinage, in today's story column, written by one of my favorite in-laws, Tante Marie-Françoise.

    Lettres de ma Terrasse 2009

  • Un genie sur le piano, un magicien du jazz, un professeur qui etait toujours pret a partager son talent avec ses etudiants, qui a eu la confiance d'encourager les autres, qui avant tout aimait sa famille, son voisinage, son pays, son Canada.

    Bob Rae: Tribute To Oscar Peterson 2008

  • Indeed, you should get the french movie "ma vie en l'air" with Vincent Elbaz (french handsome guy) and Marion Cotillard (french girl next door), as a very important rule is displayed in it: "la regle du bon voisinage", meaning "the rule of honest neighbourood".

    My weekend with Downstairs Guy 2007

  • Jean-Marc and I left our garden for a leisurely stroll through the voisinage.

    Words in a French Life Kristin Espinasse 2007

  • Zigzagging through the voisinage, I stumbled upon a street named Pourquoi Pas? and delighted in the fanciful appellation.

    Words in a French Life Kristin Espinasse 2007

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