Definition of "vicinage"

She is the only flower of fragrance that has blown in this vicinage for ten years past, or will for ten years to come […].

1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XXXIV”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […]

but scarce had I drawn back mine arms, strained the outward flexure of my knee-joints, and was fixed in an apt disposure to take the corvetto primo and leap-valiant of the cour, when methought suddenly there came in and did appear before me mine ancient, most reverend and singular good friend, the rector of Saynt Andrew of S—, nearest in neighbourhood, but not of mine own cure, myself being of D— manor house in the same vicinage,—who astonished beyond measure at my so extasied gladness, demanded wherefore I did carry myself on this wise?

1843, Bernard M— (of S—), A Dream of a Queen's Reign, page 4

It was as still as a church on a week-day: the pattering rain on the forest leaves was the only sound audible in its vicinage.

1848, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre: an Autobiography‎, London: Smith, Elder, and Co. Cornhill, page 263

In the few years that she had lived here, a stranger herself, in some sort—not accustomed, as was her husband, to a lifelong vicinage to the pygmy burial-ground—she had developed no receptivity to that uncanny idea of a race of dwarfs.

1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country‎, New York: Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, page 7