purlieu

Example Sentences

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

From The New Yorker • Jan. 13, 2020

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

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

From Out of the Air by Gillmore, Inez Haynes

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 Reid, Mayne

"Yes—'tis not our greatest doings that the world gets wind of," said the furmity-woman, who, lately settled in this purlieu, sat among the rest.

From The Mayor of Casterbridge by Hardy, Thomas