purlieu

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

From The New Yorker • Jan. 13, 2020

Rather than bide in this purlieu, Longer to stay I'll say, Adieu!

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 by Various

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

And the perambulation, whereby the purlieu is deafforested, is called pourallee, i. e. perambulatio.

From Notes and Queries, Number 191, June 25, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George

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

From Prose Fancies by Le Gallienne, Richard