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☆ ex·urb (eks′ʉrb′)

noun

a region, generally semirural, beyond the suburbs of a city, inhabited largely by persons in the upper-income group

Etymology: ex- + (sub)urb: coined (1955) by A. C. Spectorsky (1910-72), U.S. author and editor

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