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borderland ['bɔ:dəlænd] n

пограничная полоса (особенно между Англией и Шотландией); пограничная полоса; промежуточная область (в науке); нечто неопределённое; нечто промежуточное; нечто среднее; грань; граница; пересечение (an area between two qualities, ideas or subjects that has features of both but is not clearly one or the other Х the murky borderland between history and myth. OALD Alexander Demidov); пограничная область (Throughout the western and southeastern borderlands of the Soviet Union, the disintegration proceeded apace. NYT Alexander Demidov); пограничье (During such a time as this, when our borderlands are a sign of death, we raise our voices together and hold each other's hands.