near

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

for to or at; in these expressions--'The minister plenipotentiary near the Court of St. James's--near the United States,' &c. This Gallicisin was first used here in translations of the diplomatic correspondence between the French and American governments; and from the language of translations it has been adopted in many of our original compositions.--Pickering.

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