Montclair

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A city in San Bernardino County, California, United States.
  2. 2
    A city in Essex County, New Jersey, United States.

    "Since that ban took effect last October, “Montclair has been a healthier, cleaner, quieter community,” she said."

  3. 3
    A neighborhood of Oakland, California, United States.

    "That was where he grew up […] near a place that called itself Montclair, tucked into the hills on the other side of Highway 13, where everyone pretended it was a faraway luxury mountain town, when it wasn’t even not Oakland, just an area, hardly more than a neighborhood with a fancy sign, not like Piedmont, which had paid for the right to declare itself its own city, to become officially not-Oakland."

Etymology

From French mont (“mountain”) + clair (“clear”).

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