By-place

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A retired place, spot, or situation; somewhere out-of-the-way.

    "Would but your mother permit you to send her chariot, or chaise, to the bye-place where Mr Lovelace proposes Lord M.'s shall come […]."

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"Would but your mother permit you to send her chariot, or chaise, to the bye-place where Mr Lovelace proposes Lord M.'s shall come […]."

Etymology

From by- + place.

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