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purlieu::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | environs |
| Type of | geographic area, geographic region, geographical area, geographical region |
Examples of purlieu
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Love is a pretty expansive purlieu after all, and she's chasing anger, hate and lust too.
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The rangers are sometimes said to be patrollers of the purlieu.
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In fact she did many things that biological mothers do but which didn't fall within my mother's purlieu.
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Both mishaps fell within Mrs Spelman's purlieu.
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A lifelong Democrat, Vance is a product of the Eastern Establishment that regards foreign policy as its special purlieu.
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- Environs: an outer adjacent area of any place
- Purlieu is a term used of the outlying parts of a place or district. It was a term of the old Forest law, and meant, as defined by John Manwood, Treatise of the Lawes of the Forest (1598, 4th ed. ...
- The ground on the edges of a forest, especially when partly subject to the same forest laws concerning game hunting etc; The outskirts of any place; an adjacent district; the environs or neighborhood
- [Probably from Anglo-Norman purale] 1. historical A tract of land on the border of a forest, esp. one formerly included within the forest boundaries, and still partly subject to the forest laws. 2 An outlying district of a city or town, a suburb. ...
- (404) orig., an outlying part of a forest.
