purlieu
Example Sentences
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“Have you been in a purlieu tonight? Confess. Say, ‘Guilty.’
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 13, 2020
They evidently deemed that a legal purlieu was a better place for 'pickings.'
From Prose Fancies by Le Gallienne, Richard
From the eleventh story up, its wide windows surveyed every purlieu of Manhattan.
From Out of the Air by Gillmore, Inez Haynes
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
It is remarkable that the term purlieu is never once mentioned is, this long roll of parchment.
From The Natural History of Selborne by White, Gilbert
