Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Outskirt \Out"skirt`\, n.
   A part remote from the center; outer edge; border; -- usually
   in the plural; as, the outskirts of a town. --Wordsworth.

         The outskirts of his march of mystery.   --Keble.

Source : WordNet®

outskirt
     n : a part of the city far removed from the center; "they built
         a factory on the outskirts of the city" [syn: {fringe}]