purlieu

Example Sentences

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

From The New Yorker • Jan. 13, 2020

For me, I think that tiny heart Bears no such Oriental load; Your dreams concern no Pekoe mart Nor mandarin's abode, But some dim purlieu of the Edgware Road.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 25, 1914 by Various

It had been expected that the red monster would raise its head, if at all, in some purlieu of the east side.

From An Original Belle by Roe, Edward Payson

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

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