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

At any rate, this word purlieu is certainly in want of some examination.

From Notes and Queries, Number 185, May 14, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George

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

But such betrayals never escaped him when, in one of his inimitable disguises, he penetrated to the purlieu of Whitechapel, to the dens of Limehouse.

From The Golden Scorpion by Rohmer, Sax