"Alsatia" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Named for the region of Alsace, a region outside legislative and juridical lines. More at Alsatia.",
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          "ref": "1822, Sir Walter Scott, chapter XVI, in The Fortunes of Nigel, Edinburgh:",
          "text": "Whitefriars, adjacent to the Temple, then well known by the cant name of Alsatia, had at this time, and for nearly a century afterwards, the privilege of a sanctuary[.]",
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          "ref": "1860, George Eliot, chapter VIII, in The Mill on the Floss, Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons:",
          "text": "Maggie always appeared in the most amiable light at her aunt Moss’s; it was her Alsatia, where she was out of the reach of law[.]",
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      "glosses": [
        "An area lying north of London's River Thames, once privileged as a sanctuary and thus known as a refuge for criminals. It spanned from the Whitefriars monastery to the south of the west end of Fleet Street and adjacent to the Temple."
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        "(historical, slang) An area lying north of London's River Thames, once privileged as a sanctuary and thus known as a refuge for criminals. It spanned from the Whitefriars monastery to the south of the west end of Fleet Street and adjacent to the Temple."
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          "ref": "1822, Sir Walter Scott, chapter XVI, in The Fortunes of Nigel, Edinburgh:",
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        },
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          "ref": "1860, George Eliot, chapter VIII, in The Mill on the Floss, Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons:",
          "text": "Maggie always appeared in the most amiable light at her aunt Moss’s; it was her Alsatia, where she was out of the reach of law[.]",
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        "(historical, slang) An area lying north of London's River Thames, once privileged as a sanctuary and thus known as a refuge for criminals. It spanned from the Whitefriars monastery to the south of the west end of Fleet Street and adjacent to the Temple."
      ],
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