purlieu
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
purlieu (plural purlieus)
- (historical) The ground on the edges of a forest, especially when partly subject to the same forest laws concerning game hunting etc.
- The outskirts of any place; an adjacent district; the environs or neighborhood.
- 1886, Henry James, The Princess Casamassima.
- He seemed to wish to keep hold of him, and looked at him strangely, over his spectacles... when he learned that Hyacinth had taken a lodging not in their old familiar quarter but in the unexplored purlieus of Westminster.
- 1985, Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian.
- The mission occupied eight or ten ares of land, a barren purlieu that held a few goats and burros.
- 1886, Henry James, The Princess Casamassima.
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