suburb

Now, paint peels off shutters
concrete driveways are etched with fissures
tired mailboxes seem more symbolic than hopeful
and bikes with training wheels
are only seen on Sundays: grandchildren days

Sub"urb (?), n. [L. suburbium; sub under, below, near + urbs a city. See Urban.]

1.

An outlying part of a city or town; a smaller place immediately adjacent to a city; in the plural, the region which is on the confines of any city or large town; as, a house stands in the suburbs; a garden situated in the suburbs of Paris.

Chaucer.

[London] could hardly have contained less than thirty or forty thousand souls within its walls; and the suburbs were very populous. Hallam.

2.

Hence, the confines; the outer part; the environment.

Jer. Taylor.

The suburb of their straw-built citadel. Milton.

Suburb roister, a rowdy; a loafer. [Obs.] Milton.

© Webster 1913.