purlieu

Inside the Beltway humbly consults the Merriam Webster dictionary to reveal that “purlieus” — the plural form of the noun “purlieu” — means “hangout” or “stomping ground.”

“Way out here one gets that wicked city idea about New York & all those purlieus,” he writes to the dancer Nelson Barclift, from his cottage in Williamstown.

In more sensible purlieus, it might just be that pressure on Senate Republicans, who can see polling sliding against Trump and their party, pays off with actual progress.

Or a cumulative juggernaut that is operating outside the purlieus of human agency.

Sometimes Sir Grummore came on a visit Sometimes King Pellinore could be described galloping over the purlieus after the Beast, or with the Beast after him if they happened to have got muddled up.