purlieu
Example Sentences
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“Have you been in a purlieu tonight? Confess. Say, ‘Guilty.’
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 13, 2020
Surely, though we place hell under earth, the devil's walk and purlieu is about it.
From Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend by Sir Thomas Browne
The corn grown on the upland side of the borough was garnered by farmers who lived in an eastern purlieu called Durnover.
From The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
The forest laws still applied in a modified manner to the purlieu.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various
He knew Leicester Square, its every place and purlieu; and among others one where he could pitch upon a “pal.”
From The Child Wife by Mayne Reid
