purlieu

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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 Browne, Thomas, Sir

From the eleventh story up, its wide windows surveyed every purlieu of Manhattan.

From Out of the Air by Gillmore, Inez Haynes

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

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