purlieu

Example Sentences

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“Have you been in a purlieu tonight? Confess. Say, ‘Guilty.’

From The New Yorker • Jan. 13, 2020

They evidently deemed that a legal purlieu was a better place for 'pickings.'

From Prose Fancies by Le Gallienne, Richard

But such betrayals never escaped him when, in one of his inimitable disguises, he penetrated to the purlieu of Whitechapel, to the dens of Limehouse.

From The Golden Scorpion by Rohmer, Sax

It is remarkable that the term purlieu is never once mentioned in this long roll of parchment. 

From The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 by Morley, Henry

It is remarkable that the term purlieu is never once mentioned is, this long roll of parchment.

From The Natural History of Selborne by White, Gilbert