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far-flung, a. [far adv. 8 a.] ‘Flung’, ‘cast’, or extended far or to a great distance.
1895Times 14 Oct. 8/1 To the far-flung fenceless prairie. 1897Kipling Recessional i, Lord of our far-flung battle-line. 1902Daily Chron. 31 Jan. 3/5 The tangled, far-flung story of the once semi-Royal house of Douglas. 1925B. N. Odell in E. F. Norton Fight for Everest, 1924 292 A far-flung head tributary of the Dzakar Chu. 1927H. E. Fosdick Pilgr. Palestine (1928) i. 23 This far-flung vista of the land he loved. 1933A. G. Macdonell England, their England xi. 197 He was in favour of..the immediate launching of twenty new cruisers to protect the trade routes of our far-flung Empire. 1960Times 20 Apr. 14/7 The efficiency and self-sufficiency of this far-flung French outpost. |