purlieu

Example Sentences

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

From The New Yorker • Jan. 13, 2020

Surely, though we place hell under earth, the devil's walk and purlieu is about it.

From Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend by Browne, Thomas, Sir

I held Farrell tightly beneath the elbow, and steered through this enchanted purlieu.

From Foe-Farrell by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

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

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

From Prose Fancies by Le Gallienne, Richard