Sentence:  So this was my future home, I thought!...Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little <WSD>city</WSD>; the <WSD>city</WSD> of one's dreams. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A large settlement, bigger than a town.