purlieus
Example Sentences
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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
Everything grown in areas governed by the Viet Cong, everything manufactured within Viet Cong purlieus, every item that passes through its roads and waterways, is taxed.
From Time Magazine Archive
From there, the controversy spread to the mossy purlieus of British universities.
From Time Magazine Archive
“I was pricking through the purlieus of the forest after that Beast, you know, when I met with a solemn friar of orders grey, and he told me. It’s the very latest news.”
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
