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gazetteering1875
1875 J. R. LowellAmong my Bks. (1876) 2nd Ser. 137 Neither of them [Drayton and Daniel] could make poetry coalesce with gazetteering or chronicle-making.
extracted from gazetteern.
gazeˈtteering
gazeˈtteeringadj. that writes in gazettes.
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1799 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1800) 3 152 You and your partner, and gazetteering brother chip, are all of the same block.