settled district

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Noun

settled district (plural settled districts)

  1. (Australia, now historical) A division of the country peopled with settlers, typically as opposed to ‘wild’ or Aboriginal territory.
    • 1896, Henry Lawson, While Billy Boils:
      If we were down among the settled districts we'd be called tramps and beggars; and what's the difference?
    • 2017, Nick Brodie, The Vandemonian War, Hardie Grant Books, page 9:
      Arthur had responded to reports of increased violence in the interior by issuing a proclamation that the settled districts be cleansed of Aboriginal people.