purlieu

Definitions

1. The ground on the edges of a forest, especially when partly subject to the same forest laws concerning game hunting etc.
   historical
2. The outskirts of any place; an adjacent district; the environs or neighborhood; milieu.

Examples

“Whether Lady Anne knew or suspected who it was that drew his steps from the purlieus of fashion he knew not, nor held himself bound to explain⟳.”

“Bred up, like⟳ a bailiff or a shabby attorney, about the purlieus of the Inns of Court, Shepherd’s Inn is always to be found in the close⟳ neighbourhood of Lincoln’s-Inn Fields, and the Temple.”

“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.”

“Wide blank courtyards surround⟳ the walls of this marvel, a little town hangs respectfully about its purlieus, and from far away across the plain, even from the streets of Madrid herself, you can see⟳ it brooding there on the edge of the mountains, looking at once holy, menacing and obsessed.”

“The mission occupied eight or ten ares of land⟳, a barren purlieu that held a few goats and burros.”

“I wanted a beer, but coffee was undeniably easier to be had in the purlieus of the University, so we went into a cafe.”

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