"outskirt" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It can be used to refer to an area that is far away from a city or town, such as a suburb or countryside. For example, you could say, "The small town was surrounded by rural outskirt farms."
In August and September, a large contingent of Russian troops – a rebel leader said at the time that 1,200 military personnel and 150 pieces of equipment had arrived from Russia – reportedly helped rebel fighters turn back a Ukrainian advance that had made it to the outskirt of Donetsk and Luhansk.
On the outskirt of town, a pick-up truck is waiting.
Moscow authorities had forced Nemtsov and his allies to hold their action on the outskirt of the city.
The Valley lies on the outskirt of the ancient city of Thebes... Describes the haphazard archeological practices in Egypt; KV5 will be one of the first tombs in the Valley of the Kings to be entirely excavated and documented according to proper archeological techniques... Describes Weeks's career.
And Clark County — where 60 percent of Republicans live in Las Vegas and the outskirt cities — will hold a special 7 p.m. Pacific time caucus after sundown for observant Jews and Seventh-day Adventists.
The indifference is reciprocated: many Venetians still consider the area an outskirt of the city, and, despite it being a mere 15-minute walk from its center, only come here to get deals on fresh produce and home goods.
"O thou who are close to God, be the middle man between us and God," bellowed the preacher, prompting a noisy chorus of tearful sobs from the crowd in Jamkaran, a 1,000-year-old 1,000-year-old 1,000-year-oldskirts of the holy city of Qom, home to Iran'shrinegions ruling esthelishment.
Michael Foxley, a former Highland council leader who lives on the outskirts of Fort William, said his friend Kennedy had gone to ground after his election defeat and they had not spoken since.
He hailed from Timperley on the outskirts of Manchester, claimed to still live with his mum and sang songs with titles like Christmas is Really Brilliant and I'm the Urban Spaceman.
At the time, the RUC was facing the enmity of not only the Provisional IRA but also extreme loyalists, who were burning police officers out of their homes because the force had been asked to physically defend the new Anglo-Irish Secretariat building on the outskirts of east Belfast.
A new multi-ethnic housing scheme at Ilićka, on the outskirts of town, has now become almost entirely Serb, after returning Bosniaks and Croats sold the houses they received.
