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bailiwick (n.)
"district of a bailiff," early 15c.,
baillifwik
, from
bailiff
(q.v.) + Middle English form of Old English
wic
"village" (see
wick
(n.2)). Figurative sense of "one's natural or proper sphere" is first recorded 1843.
