a. [f. TOWN + -LY1.] Pertaining to or characteristic of a town; having the manners or habits of town-dwellers; = TOWNISH 2.

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1749.  Fielding, Tom Jones, XII. vii. I suppose she is one of your quality folks, one of your townly ladies that we saw last night in the puppet-show.

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1822.  Galt, Sir A. Wylie, xxiii. I intend to settle my townly affairs.

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1895.  Pall Mall G., 26 Jan., 3/2. Our country manners have grown townly.

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  Hence Townliness.

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1832.  Mrs. F. Trollope, Dom. Mann. Amer., xxxiii. (1839), 321. They throw off … their airs, and their ‘townliness.’

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