purlieu
Example Sentences
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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 George Bell
Then I fled her disdains and derisions To cities of pleasure, And made me the crony of idlers In every purlieu.
From Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses by Thomas Hardy
It is remarkable that the term purlieu is never once mentioned in this long roll of parchment.
From The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 by Henry Morley
They evidently deemed that a legal purlieu was a better place for 'pickings.'
From Prose Fancies by Richard Le Gallienne
