purlieus

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

From New York Times • Mar. 11, 2017

Senator Pepper, from the less gilded purlieus of northwest Florida, stands by everything Franklin Roosevelt has ever done or presumably will do.

From Time Magazine Archive

But pure imagination must have been responsible for Gary's artistic ease in inhabiting the soft purlieus of the feminine psyche otherwise occupied by Jimson's earthy early love, Sara Monday.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was also known in the more anonymous purlieus of Wall Street as a smart man with a dollar.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sometimes Sir Grummore came on a visit Sometimes King Pellinore could be described galloping over the purlieus after the Beast, or with the Beast after him if they happened to have got muddled up.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White