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interior

• 1 n. Hist. See Indian country (def. 2) 1948 quote.

  See also: Indian country (def. 2)  

  • 1800  (1820)  The goods intended for the interiour, or upper countries, are here put on board of canoes.
  • 1855  (1956)  . . . you will have heard that the spring brigade is to leave in a few days for the interior.
  • 1927  The stage on which this romantic drama was enacted covered more than half a continent, and was variously referred to in the literature of the fur-trade as le pays d'En Haut, the Indian Territory, the Interior, and by a more recent public as the North-West.

• 2 n. that part of British Columbia lying inland, particularly the more southern portion between the Coastal Ranges and the Rocky Mountains.

  • 1927  As this was the first one [orthophonic Victrola] imported into the interior, it caused great interest. . . .
  • 1964  . . . the controversial Freedomites . . . had been blamed for violence in the Interior for years.