purlieu

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

From The New Yorker • Jan. 13, 2020

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

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

The corn grown on the upland side of the borough was garnered by farmers who lived in an eastern purlieu called Durnover.

From The Mayor of Casterbridge by Hardy, Thomas

The forest laws still applied in a modified manner to the purlieu.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various