purlieu
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“Have you been in a purlieu tonight? Confess. Say, ‘Guilty.’
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 13, 2020
It is remarkable that the term purlieu is never once mentioned is, this long roll of parchment.
From The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White
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
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
Rather than bide in this purlieu, Longer to stay I'll say, Adieu!
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 by Various
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