LekhoriLekhoriConnected; touching; abutting.
Adjacent; neighboring.
1730–1774, Oliver Goldsmith, Introductory to Switzerland Though poor the peasant’s hut, his feasts though small, He sees his little lot the lot of all; Sees no contiguous palace rear its head To shame the meanness of his humble shed;
Connecting without a break.
the forty-eight contiguous states
From Latin contiguus (“touching”), from contingere (“to touch”); see contingent, contact, contagion.
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