Montclair — English Dictionary

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1. A city in San Bernardino County, California, United States.

2. A township in Essex County, New Jersey, United States.

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   Since that ban took effect last October, “Montclair has been a healthier, cleaner, quieter community,” she said.

3. A neighborhood of Oakland, California, United States.

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   That was where he grew up […] near a place that called itself Montclair, tucked into the hills on the other side of Highway 13, where everyone pretended it was a faraway luxury mountain town, when it wasn’t even not Oakland, just an area, hardly more than a neighborhood with a fancy sign, not like Piedmont, which had paid for the right to declare itself its own city, to become officially not-Oakland.