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Purlieu

noun
(Written also pourlieu)
1.
An outer adjacent area of any place.  Synonym: environs.






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"Purlieu" Quotes from Famous Books



... down every half-minute, in spite of cinders lavished by the authority, and can't really see its way to locomotion when it gets up. So you may just as well walk. Sally did so, and in ten minutes reached the queer little purlieu teeming with the well-connected, and named after the great Mysteries they are connected with, that lies in the angle of Park Lane and Piccadilly. Persons of exaggerated sense of locality or mature hereditary experience can make short cuts through this district, but the wayfarer (broadly speaking) ...
— Somehow Good • William de Morgan



Words linked to "Purlieu" :   geographic region, geographical area, geographical region, geographic area



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