purlieu

Example Sentences

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Inside the Beltway humbly consults the Merriam Webster dictionary to reveal that “purlieus” — the plural form of the noun “purlieu” — means “hangout” or “stomping ground.”

From Washington Times

“Way out here one gets that wicked city idea about New York & all those purlieus,” he writes to the dancer Nelson Barclift, from his cottage in Williamstown.

From The New Yorker

In more sensible purlieus, it might just be that pressure on Senate Republicans, who can see polling sliding against Trump and their party, pays off with actual progress.

From The Guardian

Or a cumulative juggernaut that is operating outside the purlieus of human agency.

From New York Times

The pigs were driven into the purlieus of the forest, where boys beat the trees to supply them with acorns.

From Literature