purlieu
Example Sentences
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“Have you been in a purlieu tonight? Confess. Say, ‘Guilty.’
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 13, 2020
Surely, though we place hell under earth, the devil's walk and purlieu is about it.
From Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend by Sir Thomas Browne
They evidently deemed that a legal purlieu was a better place for 'pickings.'
From Prose Fancies by Richard Le Gallienne
I held Farrell tightly beneath the elbow, and steered through this enchanted purlieu.
From Foe-Farrell by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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 Sax Rohmer
