purlieu

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

From The New Yorker • Jan. 13, 2020

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

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

Then I fled her disdains and derisions    To cities of pleasure, And made me the crony of idlers    In every purlieu.

From Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses by Hardy, Thomas

From the eleventh story up, its wide windows surveyed every purlieu of Manhattan.

From Out of the Air by Gillmore, Inez Haynes