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A word, or a manner of speaking, peculiar to a province or a district remote from the mother country or from the metropolis; a provincial characteristic; hence, narrowness; illiberality.

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  1. n. A word, or a word/manner">manner of speaking, peculiar to a province or a district remote from the mother country or from the metropolis; a provincial characteristic; hence, narrowness; illiberality.
  2. n. a lack of sophistication
  3. n. a partiality for some particular place
  4. A word, or a word/manner">manner of speaking, peculiar to a province or a district remote from the mother country or from the metropolis; a provincial characteristic; hence, narrowness; illiberality. M. Arnold.
  5. A word, or a word/manner">manner of speaking, peculiar to a province or adistrict remote from the mother country or from the metropolis; aprovincial characteristic; hence, narrowness; illiberality. M.Arnold.
  6. n:100 n. a lack of sophistication